The application of redemption

Sinners in distress of Conscience are ignorant and unable to help themselves.

The manner of the speech proclaims so much to each mans experience, at the very first inkling and hearing of it. They speak as men at their wits end what shall we do? we know not what to do, it's beyond our skill and above our reach; either to bear or avoid, to make an escape from his sins and the plagues due thereunto. As Reuben said when he went down into the pit, & found not his Brother Joseph there, (being sold before) he returned to his brethren, the child is not & I whither shall I go? Gen. 37. 30. So it is with the soul in distress of Conscience, seeing it self forsaken of God. Because he hath forsaken him by his backslidings and departures, God is gone, my God is not, to this poor soul, and I […] shall I go? whither shall I look? if to heaven there justice will reject and condemn me, if to hell there the Devils are ready to torment; should I take the wings of the morning & fly to the utmost parts of the earth, there the wrath of the Almighty shall pursue, and if I look into my own soul, there is a Conscience to accuse […] a hell of horror to confound me for ever. We know […] […] way to take […] we are […] of our […] […] […] […] makes it more […] […] know […] how to get either relief or release. We are at a loss […] our […] we are at a loss in our thoughts how we may find succour and deliverance, you […] are the seers of ⟨p. 577⟩Israel, show us the way of help. Paul acknowledgeth as much at his first Conversion, Acts, 9. 6. when the Lord had met him, and discovered the evil and […] of his way, he then conceived he did not well, and yet could not conceive what to do, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? I do not know, and therefore I cannot tell how to do thy will, nor yet how to procure mine own peace: When the Israelites were driven to perplexities by the expression of Gods […] against their […] carriage in choosing themselves a King, and […] cried out, […] […] us, for we have sinned,