The application of redemption

They who are truly pierced for their sins, do¹ in an especial manner, prize and covet deliverance from them.

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For this is the scope of their complaint, and the end and aim of their request, that they might be freed from that which they found so bitter, and indeed unsupportable to their souls; and it's of […] implied in their speech; that which in the like case was openly expressed by the Jailer, Acts, 16. 30. He came trembling ⟨p. 609⟩and astonished, saying, what must I do to be saved? not what shall I do to be eased of my distraction, cured of my fears, freed from my shame; but what shall I do to be saved from my sin? he was plagued most with the remembrance of that, prizeth most freedom from it: the venom of his transgression is that which lies heaviest upon his heart; and thence it is, to be safe-guarded from that is of highest esteem in his account. Saved from the guilt of sin, as that which sets the Almighty at a distance from him, and raiseth the controversy between God and the soul, and forceth him to withdraw his favour, and loving kindness, which is better than life, which David felt by woeful experience, and therefore sues with such importunity, Psal. 51. 14. Deliver me from blood guiltiness O God, thou God of my Salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. After the Commission of these evils by David, the Lord threatened the sending of the Sword that might hazard the safety of his person, and the prosperity of such as should succeed him. So Nathan, 2 Sam. 12. 10