The application of redemption

In the lack of this, the soul is not, cannot be quieted, though it doth enjoy all other things the World can afford, and his heart could desire: The want of this takes off the sweetness of all the comforts; contentments, the sap and […] of all privileges, and the confluence of all Earthly Excellencies that can be enjoyed in this Pilgrimage, when the soul is under the pressures of Gods displeasure, and the tyranny of his own distempers, which carries him from God, and keeps him under the dreadful indignation of the Almighty, present him then with the beauty of all the choicest blessings that ever any man had on Earth, yea, what ever others hoped for, but in ⟨p. 611⟩vain. Put them into his hand, conceive him possessed of the fullness of all worldly perfections, Crowns, Kingdoms, Honours, and preferments, the broken heart […] all under […] with neglect, what is that co me, says the soul? had I all the Wealth to enrich me, all Honours to advance me, Pleasures and Delights to content me, and my sins still to damn me? miserable man that ever I was born in the […] of all these falsely conceived comforts. This sour Sauce spoils all the Sweet-meat, this dram of poison makes deadly all the delights and pleasures that […] can be attained or expected. As […] when he was recalled from his Banishment, and had the liberty and use of his House, and all the conveniences and helps that were at his Command, but was charged not to see the Kings face: upon a two years trial he found a straightness of all his Comforts in these enlargements; […] he thus expresseth his resolution to […], 2 Sam. 14. 32. What avails me to be at Jerusalem, and in my House, to come from Geshur, if I may not see the Kings face? let me see his face, and let him […] me. It is so with the broken-hearted sinner; What avails it me to be compassed about with all conven ences my heart can desire, and be compassed about with my corruptions? to see all Earthly happiness heaped up together, but never to see the face of God in another world? the belly filled, and back clothed, and house stored, and the soul damned, and east out from Gods presence, in whose Presence, there is fullness of joy, and pleasures for ever more?

In the lack of this, the soul is not, cannot be quieted, though it doth enjoy all other things the World can afford, and his heart could desire: The want of this takes off the sweetness of al the comforts; contentments, the sap and of al priviledges, and the consluence of all Earthly Excellencies that can be enjoyed in this Pilgrimage, when the soul is under the pressures of Gods displeasure, and the tyranny of his own distempers, which carries him from God, and keeps him under the dreadful indignation of the Almighty, present him then with the beauty of al the choycest blessings that ever any man had on Earth, yea, what ever others hoped for, but in