The application of redemption

When the soul lies under the guilt of secret sins, if the ¹Lord in the use of all other means, denies either POWER or PEACE. Power to oppose and master the Corruption; so that still the soul is overborne by the violence and malignity of it. Or denies Peace, so that the old guilt returns afresh, after all prayers and confessions we make, cries and […] we put up in fervency and importunity unto the Lord: After the improvement of all means of Reformation and Repentance; yet the Lord, for Reasons best known to himself, denies to seal up the assurance of Love, and the forgiveness of sin unto the Conscience, then the Lord calls to this Duty of Confession, to such who are fitted and enabled to lend help and relief under God in such a case. That which the Lord hath promised to bestow, and we are bound to obtain, we are bound consequently ⟨p. 629⟩to use all […] means appointed by God for this purpose, that we may be made […] thereof. But the pardon of our […], the acceptation of our […], and the peace of our […], God hath promised to bestow, and we […] bound to obtain; therefore we must improve all means to this end. If then we find by experience that God is not pleased to dispense power or peace by our own […], on improvements of all means by our selves, he then calls us to use the help of the prayers and counsels of others, who are called the […] of ²our Faith and Joy; who are appointed to build us up in our holy Faith: whose duty it is, to comfort the feeble minded, and to instruct the ignorant; and whose prayers are effectual means to obtain the removal of sicknesses, and the forgiveness of sins. James, 5. 15.

When the soul lies under the guilt of secret sins, if the ¹Lord in the use of all other means, denies either POWER or PEACE. Power to oppose and master the Corruption; so that stil the soul is overborn by the violence and malignity of it. Or denies Peace, so that the old guilt returns afresh, after all prayers and confessions we make, cries and 〈…〉 we put up in fervency and importunity unto the Lord: After the improvement of al means of Reformation and Repentance; yet the Lord, for Reasons best known to himself, denies to seal up the assurance of Love, and the forgiveness of sin unto the Conscience, then the Lord cals to this Duty of Confession, to such who are fitted and enabled to lend help and relief under God in such a case. That which the Lord hath promised to bestow, and we are bound to obtain, we are bound consequently