The application of redemption

As touching the Example, the strangeness of the carriage,¹ his practice so gross, he imprisoneth the Prophet, and crusheth others who in likelihood stood for the Prophet, increaseth in his evil, and grows further off from God, goes off the Stage without any record of Repentance, as ver. 11, 12. The strangeness of the carriage I confess, makes me sometimes wonder where the Truth of Grace was; and if a man […] to be troublesome, and to quarrel with […] course, he might darken the evidence of his uprightness: That which is said of him, is only two things; 1. His heart was perfect all his days: 2. He did that which was right, as David his Father: To which I could say, That this comparison, and so perfection is only to be attended in regard of that particular at which it points, namely, in maintaining the Truth of Worship, and therein he held it out from first to last; which [Greek or Hebrew] […]; but whether in his whole he were so, the story evinceth not, and his miscarriages expressed, ⟨p. 660⟩[…] ⟨p. 661⟩[…] ⟨p. 662⟩and in which he lives and dies, without any record of reformation, speaks dreadfully against him, his last being the worst, He sought to the Physician, and not unto God, and so dies; the same Phrase you may see used in a like sense, 1 Kings, 11. 6. Solomons heart was not perfect with God as Davids was, i. e. Though he had truth of Grace, yet he was not perfect and entire in maintaining the Truth of his Worship: If a man may not be perfect in some case, and yet sincere; so he may be perfect in some other, and yet not sincere: For if the absence of it doth not take away sincerity, the presence of it will not argue and conclude it: But we will keep the Road, because the consent of the Judicious carries it that way; and so I Answer Secondly.

As touching the Example, the strangeness of the carriage,¹ his practice so gross, he imprisoneth the Prophet, and crusheth others who in likelihood stood for the Prophet, encreaseth in his evil, and grows further off from God, goes off the Stage without any record of Repentance, as ver. 11, 12. The strangeness of the carriage I confess, makes me somtimes wonder where the Truth of Grace was; and if a man to be troublesom, and to quarrel with course, he might darken the evidence of his uprightness: That which is said of him, is only two things; 1. His heart was perfect all his daies: 2. He did that which was right, as David his Father: To which I could say, That this comparison, and so perfection is only to be attended in regard of that particular at which it points, namely, in maintaining the Truth of Worship, and therein he held it out from first to last; which ; but whether in his whol he were so, the story evinceth not, and his miscarriages expressed,