The application of redemption

3. How doth Contrition bring in this Confession, and enlarge the Heart this way?

I Answer upon Three Grounds; all which are so many Arguments of the Point propounded

Taken from that bitterness which the soul in this contrite §1disposition, […] […], and that undeniably to be in those distempers in which it hath taken so much content in former time; the poisoned loathsomeness which now it hath […] experimentally to be in such pleasing lusts, and which formerly have […] the delight and diet of the soul: And therefore it is the heart […] the sinner is not able to brook or […] them, […] vomits them out with vehement distaste, and unsufferable disdain, abandons them by open confession. In the Body we see it, the Stomach when it was clogged with abundance of gross and foul Humours, as in the disease called Pica, it will […] upon […] and ashes, and loom wall will down as desirable diet, because such noisome diet suits best with […] […] Humours which […] in the Stomach, but when it's recovered and brought to any wholesome constitution, if […] with any such provision which is […] loathsome and […] up to it, it's […] sick, and […] be eased before […] cast it out. It's so ⟨p. 642⟩with the […] when once he hath attained this wholesome constitution, and disposition of a contrite spirit. Those noisome abominations which seemed so sweet and savoury to his sensual and base heart, that it could digest them as its only diet and delight; corrupt lusts were most suitable to corrupt nature, and no marvel that the Toad and Spiders lick up poison which is so agreeable to their poysonful Nature; but when the Lord hath wrought this through contrition, as a wholesome disposition and constitution of soul, so that not only the punishment of it which is tedious, but the poison and filth becomes more detestable and grievous to the sinner, the heart is not able to suffer the loathsome bitterness thereof, but forthwith endeavours to cashier it utterly by acknowledgement, and confession, that the very scent and savour, yea, the least remembrance of it may be for ever removed. Pain will make the dog vomit out his meat, sense of punishment constrained Judas to cast out his morsel, fling away his money, the bribe of the bloody Treachery and Treason of his; but had they been both poisoned, the one with his meat, the other with the venom of his sin, it would have wrought more freely and fully in both; That Godly Sorrow which was wrought in the hearts of the Corinthians, who bore with the […] person a long while, and the […] person […] who committed the evil 2 […]. 7. 10.