The application of redemption

2. As there is no feebleness in this, so neither is there the least baseness in so blessed a service, and work of such excellency as this is, a behaviour truly honourable and such as indeed beseems persons of the greatest account with God and man: […] were the diamond in Solomons Crown, Eccles. 1. 1. The words of a soul gathered to his people, the son of David, King in Jerusalem, they were titles of honour but this was the top of all. It was a higher sovereignty, to bewail his sin, and seek unfeigned reconciliation to the Church, and by serious and thorough satisfaction, to […] acceptance, than to sit in the throne of Israel; by that he was above his subjects, by this he was above himself; by that he had power over his people; by […] he prevailed over the power of darkness, hell & devils & distempers; by that he was above the Kingdom & ruled it according to his own will, by this he is above his will, which was above the King, yea above his corruption, and lusts who lorded over will, and King, and Kingdom, and all. Yea this is so eminent a service however it seems other to the deluded minds of men, it makes way for the […] pitch of all that happiness we ever hope to obtain, here on earth or hereafter in heaven; 1 Cor. 15. 28. the pinnacle of all perfection unto which we can be advanced, […] that God may be all […] all, […] when a sinner lies under the foot of loathsomeness, hath nothing, doth nothing, receives nothing […] himself unworthy to be looked at, worthy to be loathed of heaven & earth; Now God is all in all not only […] all for him such is his nothingness in himself, but here is the glory of all power & wisdom and mercy to overcome his unworthiness and to make him fit to receive any thing; besides, look at […] […] work it self, […] is […] greatest victory, and those must be the greatest conquerors of all, who have conquered and made spoil of all the Glory of the world. The heathen ⟨p. 650⟩King wished there were more worlds to conquer, he that is willing to bewail his sins and take shame for them, he hath conquered all those worlds and the conqueror himself, and those high thoughts that conquered him; its a degree above glory willingly to be content to want it, than indeed to enjoy it.

2. As there is no feebleness in this, so neither is there the least baseness in so blessed a service, and work of such excellency as this is, a behavior truly honorable and such as indeed beseems persons of the greatest account with God and man: were the diamond in Solomons Crown,