The application of redemption

If my sin live I dye for it either I must be separated from them or they from me; and therefore bends all his forces, bestows all his thoughts how the heinousness of this may be forever discovered, & ⟨p. 399⟩the heart forever freed from the power and authority thereof. The Apostle Paul hath his sin ever in his eye, he keeps it in fresh remembrance and consideration never hath occasion to mention any thing of himself but still he strikes upon that string, to me the least of all Saints and then the chiefest of all sinners, I was a persecutor ¹and blasphemer, the main evil was there, and his eye and thoughts were most upon that. So the lamenting church Lam 5. 16. woe to us because we have sinned, the plague famine and sword though they were beyond measure grievous, yet the plague-sore of their sins was heaviest upon their hearts and most in their thoughts, so it is with a contrite sinner, his complaints and thoughts return hither as to their centre, publish the comforts, promises and privileges of the Gospel, the sinner acknowledgeth the promises are precious, the comforts are sweet the privileges great, and happy they that ever they were born that have a title thereunto; But alas what have I to do with these, my heart is yet hard, and my sins yet unsubdued. Those keep good things from me; Lay open all the threatenings of the word, the plagues the Lord hath prepared, the curses, judgments and punishments that are recorded in the scripture and ever were inflicted by the justice of the Lord, the contrite sinner looks presently beyond these plagues to his sins, which is the cause of all these and worse than all these, and that gives the sting and evil unto all these evils what shall I do² I have sinned, deliver me from blood guiltiness O God, not from the sword, though that was threatened, but from his sin.

If my sin live I dye for it either I must be separated from them or they from me; and therefore bends al his forces, bestows al his thoughts how the hainousness of this may be forever discovered, & ⟨p. 399⟩the heart forever freed from the power and authority thereof. The Apostle Paul hath his sin ever in his eye, he keeps it in fresh remembrance and consideration never hath occasion to mention any thing of himself but stil he strikes upon that string, to me the least of all Saints and then the chiefest of all sinners, I was a persecuter