The application of redemption

Thus because their devilish heart cannot bear the truth, they flout the truth and cast it away in a scorn, as though they should say, you may see what sweet rules the scripture gives for the Government of servants, nay how unequal and unreasonable they be, which is such hideous and hellish blasphemy, that the heart of Beelzebub in his cold blood would blush to vent it. These two sorts out of a stupid impudency are not capable §3of […], there be two other sorts that out of subtlety of pride are unwilling to bear it, such are those who in the third rank, seek up […] shameful hidings that may be imagined, struggle as for life to the utmost of their power and policy, that they may shift off the shame, and make an escape from under that righteous reproach and contempt […] […] […] vileness of their carriages, have justly brought upon themselves, sometimes in silence burying and hiding of it. As Judah his incest Gen. 38. 23. When he sent the kid and found not the harlot, he was content to let her go away with his ring and bracelet, lest (saith he) we be ashamed. So David would have covered his folly with […], by sending Uriah to his own house, 2 Sam. 11. And for a push the very servants of the Lord may be surprised with this sinful ⟨p. 654⟩shifting away of their shame from them, and all that while never see their sincerity nor find peace, but when they are brought to see their sin, then they yield immediately 2 Sam. 12. 13. I have (saith David) sinned against the Lord. Sometime by falsehood gainsaying and denying, so Gehazi 2 Kings, 5. 25. Where hast thou been Gehazi, thy servant went no whither. Sometime colouring, excusing putting it off as Saul to Samuel first it were not done, then the people did it, then he did it, but for sacrifice, and for love to Gods worship, 1 Sam. 15. and in the issue he would be helped against his shame but not against his sin, yet honour me before the people v. 30. he doth not say let me be humbled before the people who have sinned before them;