The application of redemption

It will be our greatest comfort and should be our greatest ¹care to rise presently from our falls and recover our souls without delay, from such failings with which we are many times overtaken. our first care should be not to sin, our next care, not to continue in it if we be surprised therewith. A green wound is easily and successfully cured in an ordinary course, when your old rankled sores hardly admit of any recovery. When the member is sprained or out of joint, to delay or neglect to set it, and that with most speed, its likely never to grow strong, […] almost impossible it should be made straight, deal so with thy heart in the work of seasonable and sound repentance, for there is the like danger. better ⟨p. 330⟩we judg our sin, than that we should be judged yea condemned for them, better we begin with speed to see our evils, and lye in the way to seek for mercy, than that our careless security should make way and preparation to hasten piercing and overbearing plagues. It were to be wished we should never be taken aside or plucked away with false fears, to speak hastily and by unbelief basely to deny the Lord Jesus, and his righteousness, but if we have failed and that shamefully as Peter, go out immediately, and weep with him bitterly for our base departures. Math. 26. last the Lord bears not a fearless continuance in any distemper, if David bed it securely in base lusts, the Lord will break his bones for it. David therefore takes himself here, no sooner sees God withdrawing, but he seeks him with instancy and importunity, Psal. 30. 7. 8. 9. 10.

It wil be our greatest comfort and should be our greatest ¹care to rise presently from our fals and recover our souls without delay, from such failings with which we are many times overtaken. our first care should be not to sin, our next care, not to continue in it if we be surprised therewith. A green wound is easily and successefully cured in an ordinarie course, when your old rankled sores hardly admit of any recovery. When the member is sprayned or out of joynt, to delay or neglect to set it, and that with most speed, its likely never to grow strong, almost impossible it should be made streight, deal so with thy heart in the work of seasonable and sound repentance, for there is the like danger. better