The application of redemption

and in the days of thy distress, when nothing will help thee but the holy Word of ⟨p. 339⟩God, God will then deal with you, and follow you with the […] of your own […], thou wouldst not see the holiness and purity of Gods Precepts, thou […] have a mind not able to attend, or receive, or remember any thing that may be for thy direction, support, or comfort, but only live upon thine own guilt, and the terrors that attend thereupon, and the perverseness of thine own heart will be thine own plague: In your froward pangs you flinch and fling, care not what you say or do; God can be as […] as you, nor hear prayers, nor regard your complaints, nor pity your necessities, but pursue you with his plagues, let fly on every hand the fierceness of his displeasure; God can and will hamper thee if thou hadst a heart as fierce as a […] of Hell, make thee weary of thy part, be as perverse as thou wilt or canst be. And therefore the word in the place is marvellous pregnant, it signifies to contend with another, as one that wrestles will do, wreath and […], and turn his body every way, that he may meet with his adversary with whom he is to grapple. So the Lord will meet with thee at every turn; the greater thy opposition hath been against him, the greater expression of his displeasure shalt thou be sure to […], and that in the most dreadful manner. The sins of Manasseh were high handed, and hellish abominations, mighty provocations, out of measure sinful. 2 Chron. 33. 11. Therefore God abased him mightily, fettered, and […], and humbled him mightily, and made him cry mightily before he could […] audience and acceptance with him: the cruel and harsh carriage of the Jailer, Acts, 16. exceeded his Commission, and so the bounds of common Humanity, to deal worse with the distressed than either their Fact deserved, or the Law permitted, or Authority allowed him in that behalf, a […] transported with deadly indignation against the ways of God and his People, and as it appears by the circumstances of the story, a man that pleased […] in such unreasonable ⟨p. 340⟩practices; the Lord therefore handles him answerably to the harshness of his spirit, makes the Earth quake and the Prison totter, the bolts break, and the door fly open, and at last his heart begins to shake and die within him, notwithstanding the fierceness of his Spirit. So Paul,