The application of redemption

TRIAL, We may hence gain undoubted evidence, ¹whether ever our hearts were soundly soaked in this Godly sorrow for sin […] or no. Contrition if it be of the right stamp it hath a constraining power with it to force the heart against corruption; It silenceth all shifts, puts by and puts off all false pleas, scatters all sluggish pretences, that are made in behalf of our distempers, […] a word, it casts the balance against all carnal reasons, that are […] and stirring, and usually cast in by Satan, and our sensual disposition to keep us, in our former estate, and to procure some, if not toleration, yet mitigation ⟨p. 591⟩in our […] against our […]; It lays and leaves a pressing […] upon the soul that overbears, what ever may come on the contrary part, to plead for any connivance for any sin in any kind, As we say in the Proverb, there is no reasoning against sense, a man hath no patience to hear words, […] or appearances which are against a mans feeling & experience; If any stander by should persuade a man the potion is pleasant when a man […] it […], and his stomach […] it; or that the fire is cold when he finds it […] and burn; he can hardly give him the hearing, but disdains him an answer; say what you will, I regard not what you say, shall not I trust mine eyes, or so far befool my self as to go against mine own feeling? I pass not that you speak in that behalf. So it is with a broken hearted sinner what ever Satan shall suggest, his carnal friends and companions counsel, his deceitful heart pretend, or plead what need he be so strict in his way, so […] against his sin, so resolute to abandon all his former courses, and his ancient […] with whom he hath had so much content, there is no such need now to set upon the work, hereafter will be time enough, or no such danger in maintaining a dalliance with such and such distempers, which are no great matter, nor is there any great harm in them, the burdened sinner hath not patience to hear, but disdains to enter parley about such things as he hath past sentence upon, long before this day, tell not me, talk not to me of such things: there is no speaking against mine own experience, I have felt and found the contrary, my heart knows otherwise and that by woeful […], therefore I pass not what you speak.

TRYAL, We may hence gain undoubted evidence,