The application of redemption

While the soul stands fully under the power of corruptions ¹possessed with it and acted by it, it's not possible §3it should apprehend the evil of sin, nor the nature of the soul taste the venom thereof. Sin carries no crossness of opposition of evil to it self, and therefore […] disquiet to it self, […] so no separation from it self. But sin ⟨p. 383⟩wholly possessing and wholly acting the soul it makes the mind and heart apprehend, not according to the nature of the soul and impression left upon it when created but according to the distemper by which it is possessed, and carried. So did they to Samuel, 1 Sam. 8. 19. they said, nay but we will have a King Jer. 18. 12. So they to Jeremiah; we will walk every one in the imagination of his own heart. Give the sick man the most pleasant potion though the Physician profess it, and give reasons, and others by experience find it so, he no sooner tastes it but he puts it away, as that which is exceeding bitter, because his taste is corrupted, and tongue furred with the foulness of his stomach he relisheth the drink not according to what they say and what it is, or what the natural constitution of the palate would persuade, but what his distemper which now possesseth and disordereth his taste, tell him. So it was with Judas, though he was told before, that it were better he had never been born, that would not do the deed, his covetous heart found another relish, nay when he flung away his money out of vexation, yet he relished his murther still, and therefore hanged himself. And this is the reason why they who sin against the holy Ghost even against the evidence of reason, the corruption of their heart relisheth other than reason tells.

While the soul stands fully under the power of corruptions ¹possessed with it and acted by it, it's not possible §3it should apprebend the evil of sin, nor the nature of the soul tast the venome thereof. Sin carryes no crossness of opposition of evil to it self, and therefore disquiet to it self, so no separation from it self. But sin