The application of redemption

Nay Thirdly, In case the party be not convinced of §3the equity and truth of the discovery, and of his own evil, in stumbling at the parties that dispensed it, he may […] long in such a distemper, and so proceed harshly upon such erroneous ground, to be offended with such expressions, because he conceives he justly may: this happily may be the ground of Asa his former proceeding in so fierce a manner with the Prophet, as conceiving that he had gone beyond his commission, and either reproved him not so justly as he should, at the least not in that under and respective manner, as became the power and Sovereignty of Asa, or subjection which the Prophet should have remembered & acknowledged to be due; and this may seem somewhat probable because he claps him close prisoner, puts him into little Ease, as being guilty of no less than high Treason committed against his person, ⟨p. 663⟩Jun. in locum. But while the soul is thus deluded and taken aside with a proud, self-deceiving frame, if we may look at the remarkable hand of God against such distempers as the example of Asa presents it before us, such persons will each day be more blinded and unable to see their sin, so was he; more acted by the power of it, and taken aside by it, so was he, he puts others into prison not long after; more liable to some direful destroying plagues, so was he, his disease strange and irrecoverable; and in reason is like to die without comfort to his Conscience, or honour to his name; so did he.

Nay Thirdly, In case the party be not convinced of §3the equity and truth of the discovety, and of his own evil, in stumbling at the parties that dispensed it, he may 〈…〉 long in such a distemper, and so proceed harshly upon such erroneous ground, to be offended with such expressions, because he conceives he justly may: this happily may be the ground of Asa his former proceeding in so fierce a manner with the Propher, as conceiving that he had gone beyond his commission, and either reproved him not so justly as he should, at the least not in that under and respective manner, as became the power and Soveraignty of Asa, or subjection which the Prophet should have remembred & acknowledged to be due; and this may seem somwhat probable becaus he claps him close prisoner, puts him into little Ease, as being guilty of no less than high Treason committed against his person,