The application of redemption

Because this sorrow is only true, God accounts it, ¹and the Saints & Sinners shall so find it. Al other sorrows, what ever pretences or appearances are put upon them, they are in truth but counterfeit and false, and men will fail in their hopes and fall short of their ends, and expectations that trust thereunto they are not of the right make, nor have they the right stamp of the spirit of contrition upon them, sorrow for the shame that befalls the punishment that pincheth and lies heavy, wrath and vengeance that scorcheth the Conscience, though this is good in his place as it makes way for another, yet if it go no further men fall short of this work, and in the end of their comforts also. This is in the way but he that sits down here will never come to his end, untimely travels […] untimely births; this we must do but this is not all, and if we find no more, our sorrow is no true sorrow. Truth ever carries conformity to the nature of the thing; the palate that rasts a thing truly it […] it as it is, bitter things as bitter, he sees a thing truly that sees it as it is. But he that shall taste […] things sweet, he that shall call black blew, we say it, and sense […] it, he is deceived. So here, he that finds ⟨p. 415⟩the burden of the punishment and feels his plagues heavier than his sins, he doth not feel things as they are, nor passeth a righteous judgment upon them according to their […], for it hath appeared & hath been proved that the least sin weigheth down the heaviest plague. The heart tastes evils as the stomach tastes meat, if thy sin be less than thy miseries, thy mouth is out of taste; It was that which he charged upon Job. Job. 36. 21. thou hast chosen sin rather than affliction.

Because this sorrow is onely true, God accounts it, ¹and the Saints & Sinners shal so find it. Al other sorrowes, what ever pretences or appearances are put upon them, they are in truth but counterfeit and false, and men wil fail in their hopes and fal short of their ends, and expectations that trust thereunto they are not of the right make, nor have they the right stamp of the spirit of contrition upon them, sorrow for the shame that befals the punishment that pincheth and lyes heavy, wrath and vengeance that scorcheth the Conscience, though this is good in his place as it makes way for another, yet if it go no further men fal short of this work, and in the end of their comforts also. This is in the way but he that sits down here wil never come to his end, untimely travels untimely births; this we must do but this is not al, and if we find no more, our sorrow is no true sorrow. Truth ever carryes conformity to the nature of the thing; the palate that rasts a thing truly it it as it is, bitter things as bitter, he sees a thing truly that sees it as it is. But he that shal tast things sweet, he that shal cal black blew, we say it, and sence it, he is deceived. So here, he that finds