The application of redemption

Here's matter of DIRECTION, we hence see the ¹ready way, and never failing means to set an edge upon our desires and put life into our endeavours, to make us sedulous and busy in seeking after the Lord and the things of his grace. 'Maintain a right sight of the […] of thy sin, the […] thereof which will delude thee before thou […] aware, and may be, endanger thy peace and Comfort before thou dost discern it. Maintain a right sense and feeling of the evil of thy sin, this broken-heartedness as at the first, thou wilt then enquire as at the first, pray & seek as at the first. As it is with the Patient when the disease is over, health and ease comes on […], he then begins to lay aside physic, to neglect his diet prescribed, never seeks to the […] nor sends for further counsel, Oh but if his old fits befall him, he is then as careful to use his old Physic, send presently to the Physician for fresh counsel, and advice. So it will be with the soul of a sinner, when once the wound is healed, & God […] allayed the venom of the vengeance ⟨p. 571⟩which sin brought with it, & the heart grows up in some evidence of the work, and assurance of Gods love, so that the worst is past and the […] is over. men begin to lay aside their diet, and that careful […] they ought to use, the daily renewed repentance they should take up, until the Lord lets loose their lusts afresh, their old fits and force of their […] distempers seem again to overbear them, which hazard their truth and peace they begin to find their hearts, and prayers, and begin again to be awakened to the work. The Corinthians were careless either of the sin or misery […] […] persons, or their own duty and careful endeavour to reform until the Apostle […] sharply to them, and affects their hearts with godly sorrow, this set them all awork, what care? in what fear? what zeal did it provoke them to express? both in their carriage towards him, and in their daily course before God? 2. Cor. 19. 11. Pauls new […] with his corruptions and the body of […] makes him renew his complaints, Rom. 7. 24. Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death, when God left a splinter in the […], and sent a messenger of Satan to buffet him, this made him to bestir himself to purpose,