The application of redemption

Hide nothing from me, though the heaviest and hardest of the message that he was to report; A broken hearted sinner will […] capitulate with the Almighty, stick with God unless he may have his own […], or look for some abatement from the Lord, if the corruption be more than ordinary strong, and the means which are to be used be marvellously cross, not only to a mans corruption, but to ones outward comforts, yea to nature it self; yea the heart under this disposition yields quietly that the Lord should take his. own course, any course with it, if he will but take away his corruption with which he is plagued most of all, and of which he desires most of all to be freed and delivered, if it were the good pleasure of the Almighty: Zach. 14. 6. These are the wounds wherewith I was wounded in the house of my friends. In case of resolution of it, come to the highest sum and to the hazard of a mans whole estate even to his open beggary, if God appoints it, he will bear it, if that be a means to remove his distemper, he will not baulk it, he can part with his estate, if he may part with his covetous disposition by that means. If the heart be loosened from the world its not hard to leave the things of the world. But if the stroke be but overly that hath taken off, and abated only the edge of inordinate desire after these things, but there lies a root of bitterness and base covetousness within, though a man may take the receipt in some degrees of it to restore to some shillings and crowns and pounds, but when it comes to hundreds, the heart is not loosened from all, and therefore leaves God and his ordinance rather than his own lusts. So the covetous young man when it came so that he must sell all and give to the poor, He went away sorrowful, Math. 19. 20. &c. He would rather go away from Christ than suffer him to take away his covetous disposition.

Hide nothing from me, though the heaviest and hardest of the message that he was to report; A broken hearted sinner wil 〈…〉 capitulate with the Almighty, stick with God unless he may have his own 〈…〉, or look for some abatement from the Lord, if the corruption be more than ordinary strong, and the means which are to be used be mervailously cross, not onely to a mans corruption, but to ones outward comforts, yea to nature it self; yea the heart under this disposition yields quietly that the Lord should take his. own course, any course with it, if he wil but take away his corruption with which he is plagued most of al, and of which he desires most of al to be freed and delivered, if it were the good pleasure of the Almighty: