The application of redemption

Add unto all the former the time wherein a man hath §4continued in his sins and the frequency of them, having often committed one and the same sin, stumbling again at the same stone, & taken aside again by the same […] and temptations after they have been confessed; bewailed, resolved against Psal. 78. 32. For all this they sinned still &c. Psal. 40. 12. they are more than the hairs of my head, I am not able to look up, Thus we must survey severally the particulars which may be able to present the vileness of sin to us, but that is not all nor yet sufficient. but,

Add unto al the former the time wherein a man hath §4continued in his sins and the frequency of them, having often committed one and the same sin, stumbling again at the same stone, & taken aside again by the same 〈…〉 and temptations after they have been confessed; bewailed, resolved against Psal. 78. 32. For all this they sined stil &c. Psal. 40. 12. they are more than the haires of my head, I am not able to look up, Thus wee must survey severally the particulars which may be able to present the vileness of sin to us, but that is not al nor yet sufficient. but,

We must sum them up jointly by serious meditation, §2that so they may fall-upon the heart in the full weight of them, and prevail more effectually and this also helps forward the work of contrition in a special manner, He that parts every stick in the bundle and takes them severally and singles them one from another he may carry them easily and lightly, never be loaded or troubled with them, but when he hath gathered them from several places where they lay scattered, and […] them together, he will then find them a burden he is not able to lift, much less able to stand under and bear; so here that is also another and special work of Meditation, besides those mentioned formerly, it doth not only look over the several aberrations of mans practice, and