The application of redemption

It's true, In Nature, and Grace, and Reason, each thing […] it self, and therefore expels its contrary, to the utmost distance it may, that it may neither find nor fear any annoyance, or hazard therefrom; and therefore we find in diseases, Agues and Fevers, when Nature by the help of Physic hath gained some strength, forceth the malignant humour as far from the heart as it can, it breaks forth into the lips, and then it's conceived and […], the fits will end, the danger is over. So it is with the soul when it's helped by the Spirit in piercing the soul with Godly Sorrow, he causeth the disease and distemper to break forth into the lips by open confession, and forceth it as far as may be, from ever annoying the heart any more. The sweetness of sin is in this taken off, contrition severs it from the heart, confession vomits out and removes it, that it may never annoy the soul, or disturb the peace of a mans Conscience any more.

It's true, In Nature, and Grace, and Reason, each thing 〈…〉 it self, and therefore expels its contraty, to the utmost distance it may, that it may neither find nor fear any annoyance, or hazard therefrom; and therefore we find in diseases, Agues and Feavers, when Nature by the help of Physick hath gained some strength, forceth the malignant humor as far from the heart as it can, it breaks forth into the lips, and then it's conceived and 〈…〉, the fits wil end, the danger is over. So it is with the soul when it's helped by the Spirit in piercing the soul with Godly Sorrow, he causeth the disease and distemper to break forth into the lips by open confession, and forceth it as far as may be, from ever annoying the heart any more. The sweetness of sin is in this taken off, contrition severs it from the heart, confession vomits out and removes it, that it may never annoy the soul, or disturb the peace of a mans Conscience any more.

The distressed sinner now comes […] to feel, and so §2to know the danger of sin, as undoubtedly hazarding a mans everlasting happiness and welfare, and to find also by woeful proof his own weakness, and inability either to prevent it or bear it, or remove it and help himself against that eternal ruin and confusion which God hath threatened, and he must expect, and shall endure by reason of the same. He thought indeed in the time of his folly, That Preachers in point of policy, presenting sin in a more dreadful visage and appearance, than there was just cause, or Reason would in truth conclude; at least he imagined (if the worst befell) that either he would remove the guilt, or avoid the plague, or subdue the strength of such distempers that did threaten Gods displeasure, and his destruction: but now he finds it otherwise,