The application of redemption

The Second Particular to be considered in the Doctrine is a SEQUESTRATION FROM SIN. It is a word common among those that attend upon the Law, when men are at a controversy about Goods and Land, and the Cause is depending, the Goods or Land is sequestered, set aside and put into the power of any parties, but set aside till the case be decided. So under this preparative work the soul is sequestered from sin: when God hath made a man see sin, and willing to hate it, the soul and sin are at controversy, the soul revolts from under the Authority of sin, and saith sin is not my Ruler, I cannot rule my self, and sin shall not rule me; it was by usurpation that it hath had so long possession of me, but it shall not domineer in my soul any longer: and therefore the poor distressed sinner is glad that Christ is stirring in the word, and saith he, I am resolved never to yield to the Authority of sin more, I will sue out a sequestration, and Oh that my heart may be left in the hand of the Spirit of Christ. I was not made for sin, but for God, Oh that I may be delivered from my sin, that I may come at God again, and now he is content that God would […] him into Hell. So he would free him from his sins, Hos. 14. 8. Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with Idols? Rom. 11. 24. The soul is now as a graft cut off from the Stock of old Adam, it grows not to it, nor is fed by it any more.

The Second Particular to be considered in the Doctrine is a SEQUESTRATION FROM SIN. It is a word common among those that attend upon the Law, when men are at a controversie about Goods and Land, and the Cause is depending, the Goods or Land is sequestred, set aside and put into the power of any parties, but set aside til the case be decided. So under this preparative work the soul is sequestred from sin: when God hath made a man see sin, and willing to hate it, the soul and sin are at controversie, the soul revolts from under the Authority of sin, and saith sin is not my Ruler, I cannot rule my self, and sin shal not rule me; it was by usurpation that it hath had so long possession of me, but it shal not domineer in my soul any longer: and therefore the poor distressed sinner is glad that Christ is stirring in the word, and saith he, I am resolved never to yield to the Authority of sin more, I wil sue out a sequestration, and Oh that my heart may be left in the hand of the Spirit of Christ. I was not made for sin, but for God, Oh that I may be delivered from my sin, that I may come at God again, and now he is content that God would him into Hell. So he would free him from his sins,