The application of redemption

1 He labours the destruction of sin in his own […] and that two ways. 1. He doth what he can himself. 2. He seeks for help from others that they may send in new supply of forces to do what he cannot.

1 He labors the destruction of sin in his own 〈…〉 and that two wayes. 1. He doth what he can himself. 2. He seeks for help from others that they may send in new supply of forces to do what he cannot.

He sets himself to the utmost of his power to procure the utter ruin of his lusts; as […] enemies, if there be a settled hatred indeed, they are not satisfied, until they have the blood of each other, So it is here. Its not to weaken the work of sin, to stop the spreading of it, to confine the compass of it, to some private course, or yet to imprison […] by restraint that it may not stir abroad, nor yet have the liberty of the prison, but be laid aside as the malefactor in the dungeon, no this hatred seeks the death and the not being of it, and until then its restless in pursuit. As David with his enemies Psal. 78. 37. I have pursued mine enemies and overtaken them, neither did I turn again until they were consumed, A contrite heart deals so with his distempers. He ceaseth not until he see his desire upon his […], until he hath his will of him. And if we view the expression of the scripture, we shall see how hatred vents itself against such as be enemies, whose destruction it intends, partly by […], partly by conspiracy, its said of the Egyptians, that God turned their hearts to hate his people, and the fruit of that is in the following words, and they dealt subtly with them, what that subtlety was, the text discovers Exod. 1. 10. first they oppressed them with heavy burdens, then they plotted by treachery to kill their males in the birth, that so in issue they might take away their strength and numbers also, in the issue […] is subtlety which is one way how hatred expresseth itself. Again if we look