The application of redemption

We are rid of the most of them, but yet One is our vexation, and I hate him, because he hates my sin, and will never speak good, that is, speak that which pleaseth my corruption, and therefore displeaseth me. But good Jehoshaphat he was not willing to hear his words, much less able to bear them, and therefore expresseth himself quite contrary, Let not the King say so; and of the same frame he was when it came home to his own particular, 2 Chron. 19. 2. When Jehu the Seer met him after the Battle, and his […], and set a heavy reproof upon him, shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore there is wrath upon thee from the Lord; the Text intimates he was no whit offended with the Message, or the man, but yielded to the one, and lovingly […] the other, and set presently about the reformation. When Abigail met David now upon his march so justly provoked, armed also with power and rage; and therefore if we should look at her, that was to discover the […] of his proceedings, and stop him therein, or at David so wronged and provoked, and now upon the sign as the chief Commander in the head of his troops, to be […], and that by the voice of a woman, in reason it […] be conceived that ever she should have brought ⟨p. 661⟩him, whose heart was like the heart of a Lyon, and now in his heat transported with wrath, to have […] himself, and […] down under the shame of his wrath; yet Oh, the power of a gracious Spirit, he is content upon all these disadvantages to see his sin, and take his shame with a thankful heart, Blessed be God, and blessed be thy Counsel, and blessed be thou, who hast discovered the sinfulness of my rage, and hast kept me from shedding blood, 1 Sam. 25. 32. and it's not only his practice, but his prayer, Let the righteous sinite me, it shall not break my head, it shall be as a precious Oil, Psal. 141.

We are rid of the most of them, but yet One is our vexation, and I hate him, because he hates my sin, and wil never speak good, that is, speak that which pleaseth my corruption, and therefore displeaseth me. But good Jehosaphat he was not willing to hear his words, much less able to bear them, and therfore expresseth himself quite contrary, Let not the King say so; and of the same frame he was when it came home to his own particular,