The application of redemption

A broken-hearted sinner feels his covetousness worse than beggary, and therefore restores all readily; his sin worse than shame, and therefore freely confesseth it; than scorn or contempt, and therefore bears the sharpest reproofs after the most unsavoury and disorderly manner dispensed: he is weary of his distemper, and therefore willing to bear the sharpest means that shall be tried upon him by […] to remove it,; use any, even the most difficult and tedious that may subdue those distempers in his […].

A broken-hearted sinner feels his covetousness worse than beggery, and therefore restores al readily; his sin worse than shame, and therefore freely confesseth it; than scorn or contempt, and therefore bears the sharpest reproofs after the most unsavory and disorderly manner dispensed: he is weary of his distemper, and therefore willing to bear the sharpest means that shall be tried upon him by 〈…〉 to remove it,; use any, even the most difficult and tedious that may subdue those distempers in his 〈…〉.

He is restlessly importunate in seeking relief from God §6against his sin, and not satisfied in having any thing but deliverance from sin by Jesus Christ. He is RESTLESS and SEEKING: So that should the Lord reprieve him from his present plagues, abate him of the […] he hath found, and those pressures and […] […] hath felt, should the Lord […] him of all his horrors, […] him, and take present […] from the ⟨p. 412⟩troubles and occasions of his Conscience; his sorrows would seize upon him afresh, and his fears pursue him without intermission; and the reason is, because the same cause continues, and therefore there must be the same effect, as long as his sin continues unsubdued, he will continue to sigh out his sorrows, & his prayers; for they were not the crosses of the world, poverty in his Estate, disparagements which were cast upon his person, pressures & persecutions from the rage of unreasonable men, nor yet the torments of Hell prepared or suffered, that did sink the soul of a contrite sinner: No, it was the crossness of his corrupt heart to the holiness of the Almighty, his opposition against him, and separation from him, that was the burden unsufferable and unsupportable; and as long as this remains unsubdued, there is no end of his sorrows, nor end of his prayers in suing to the Almighty for succour and relief. So David,