The application of redemption

All which are aberrations from the right way and Rule, and prove marvellous prejudicial in our proceeding. And the Enemy strives to put us upon all these by all the malice and policy he can use. If he cannot keep us in security, and hinder us from setting out in a Christian course, his next endeavour is to wrack us upon rocks, and shoals, and sands, and so to hazard our passage. A word of all.

All which are aberrations from the right way and Rule, and prove marvelous prejudicial in our proceeding. And the Enemy strives to put us upon all these by al the malice and policy he can use. If he cannot keep us in security, and hinder us from setting out in a Christian course, his next endeavor is to wrack us upon rocks, and fholes, and sands, and so to hazard our passage. A word of all.

First, We must beware of desperate discouragements §1in the consideration of our evil ways: for first Satan useth all the crafts and wiles that he can, that we may not see our sins, if we never know the danger, we will never avoid, can never escape it. But if he see the sinner resolved to make a through search, and to make work of it, he then labours to carry him as much to the contrary extreme, that he shall see nothing but sin; before he bore him in hand, he needed no pardon; now he persuades him there is no hope of pardon: Before his estate was safe and good, and need not be altered, nor he trouble himself about it; it's now so vile and desperate, there is no help, and cannot be recovered: Before he soothed up the sinner, it was in his power to reform when he would; now he persuades there is no possibility in Heaven or Earth to relieve. Do you not see (says Satan) the greatness of the guilt of your former sins that's daily before you, the power of present corruptions prevailing more and more? do you not see that all the means you have, and endeavours you use, do you no good? only you increase your sin the more, by the abuse of Duties and Ordinances; and God hath forsaken you, rejected your person, cast out your prayers, blesseth not his Ordinances to you for good: talk not you of Grace and Mercy, you have deluded your self with those dreams too long; look not out for any such relief which you know you have formerly neglected, and it's