The application of redemption

INSTRUCTION, We here see the reason why Satan ¹draws out all his forces, useth the depth of his delusions on the one side, sets all the policy and power of Hell a work on the other side, and tries all conclusions to the utmost of his skill, if by any means he might hamstring a mans hopes, put the distressed sinner beyond all possibility and expectation of Good, and then he hath him close prisoner, past recovery, not once looks our for deliverance, he is his own; the […] off the hinges, nor opens, nor shuts to give way to them that pass in or out, but ⟨p. 603⟩rather is a trouble and stops their way. Its so here, […] Satan can but unhinge the heart of the hope and expectation of relief and help, he makes the contrite soul wholly uncapable of all comfort or support, there is no […] between heaven and him, but is an out-lawed wretch an out-cast, beyond the compass of Gods compassion and kindness, and sits down confounded in his own accursed condition and […] further. It is a stratagem usual and common amongst commanders, in the taking of towns and walled cities, when provisions (as they understand) are low and short within, they block up all passages; there is none can come out, none can go in (as the scriptures speak in that kind) none go out to […] or procure provision, none come in to bring any, and then they certainly conclude the […] is theirs, they must either yield or famish in such a time, the like is the policy of the enemy and its a direful […], and undoubtedly procures the speedy destruction of the soul that cuts off a mans hopes, and blocks up the soul from the possible expectation of any good: it deeds the […], deeds the ordinance, deeds a mans diligence, no going out by endeavour to procure any spiritual release, no coming in by the power of any […] to work any good in the soul, and hence it is that the enemy darts in such temptations and by his wiles and subtleties casts a man into such a condition at least to his persuasion, that its utterly beyond all consultation and consideration either of our souls, or others, and therefore there is no further seeking out but sinking irrecoverably in a mans distress; And therefore […] hastens the soul in a […] […] of […], to pass such determinations upon a mans estate, that makes him past appearance of recovery or […], and so […] the reach of reason or relief.

INSTRUCTION, We here see the reason why Satan