The application of redemption

And sometime again so willingly to welcome and entertain it, We lie down in our ⟨p. 657⟩shame, and are covered with confusion, Jer. 3. […] Shame is a heavy curse, as deserved by sin, and justly inflicted from the Lord; but to accept of it with an under abasedness of heart, as the punishment of our […] from the hand of the Lord, this is indeed the work of Grace; and a gracious heart will not side it against that Truth, which will pass the sentence of shame upon it, as the just fruit of our evil doings, and as a means so sanctified, to work a hatred against it in our selves, and to remove the scandal of it from others; and therefore strives not by restless cavils and evasions to make an escape from the evidence of the Word in the work of Conviction, when a mans errors should be discovered; nor yet doth repine at, nor bear a privy grudge after the conviction, lies not under the Truth as the […] upon the rack, which he therefore bears, not because indeed he cannot help himself against it, with all the troublesome […] he can use; but his soul inwardly approves of that word which judgeth his person and practice vile as himself doth: Thus the word in the Original, which sign sies confession properly, […], to speak as God speaks, to judg as God judgeth of his sin; this hath been the constant guise of the Saints, touched sincerely with remorse for their sin: A word snibs David, Thou art the man; presently, I have sinned, saith he. A wink or a look of the Lord Jesus, makes Peter lie at his foot, Go out and weep bitterly, who had immediately before in a faithless cowardice basely denied him. As it is with a Steed of a tender mouth, feels his Bit […], the […] check of the Rider stays him, turns him which way he will: So it is with a tender Conscience, falls under the greatest shame that the least evidence of Argument will check him withal: So Hezekiah, though i. were a sharp word, and the threatening […], Isai. 39. last, yet says he, The Word of the Lord is a good Wand; my heart is naught, my carriage naught, my apprehensions naught and erroneous, but ⟨p. 658⟩the Word of the Lord is good; and the holy Apostle in that inward combat, speaks in the Name of all the Saints in the like case,