The application of redemption

In a right sense it […] be truly said, that sin is truly ¹cross and opposite to the Nature of the soul, and the greatest evil that doth or can […]: I say, opposite §1to the Nature of the foul […] a right […]; Look at the soul in respect of the end for which it was created, and that impression which is […] and left upon it unto ⟨p. 381⟩this day, whereby it's restlessly carried in the search, and for the procurement of that good for which it was made, though it […] the right […] of what it is, and falls short in the […] of it. The soul was made for […] end, and good, and therefore for a better than it self, therefore for God, therefore to enjoy union with him, and communion with those blessed excellencies of his, so far as they are communicable, and it were capable; this impression remains still upon the soul, though the work thereof is wholly prejudiced, and it self disappointed wholly of that good which would satisfy the desires thereof, and it misseth. […] being possessed with sin, the Judgment is blinded and deluded that it mistakes utterly, and perceives not this good, and so pursues other things in the room of it, yet restless and unsatisfied in what it-hath, and attains, but it hath not that for which it was made; thus Paul speaks of the Romans, Rom. 2. 14. Being without the Law, they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their Conscience excusing or accusing; this ever appears in the heart corrupt, I was for a […]; the ambitious man he seeks his […], […] man the World, […] gets the booty, and yet is not […] in that which he gets; I […] […] […], and […] which should […], and yet […] doth not satisfy. And […] they know no […] […] these, and are not satisfied with these, therefore they […] […] carried after more of these vain […], […] Honour, more Wealth, more […]; the […] blinded […] the […] […] and […] with them, […] […] […] by what light, […] is carried to no other by the power and principles it hath. This is the reason the Apostle Peter gives, why carnal hearts […] see spiritual […], 2 Pet. 1. 9. Because they are blind; and cannot see […] […]. […] […] […] things are far […], and blind men […] […] reach […], […] they […] the light, help, and […] […] the […], and the […] […] […].