The application of redemption

DOCT. 2. There must be a true sight of sin, before the heart can be broken for it | 35 For Explication, four things: | 1 How God works this sight of sin | 37 1 The Law of God discovers our sins | ibid 2 There is a new Light put into the mind | 38 3 The Spirit takes […] the Rule of darkness out of the mind | 41 4 The Spirit leaves a set upon the understanding God-ward | 42 2 How far the sinner is […] in this sight of sin | 43 1 There is an insufficiency in the Understanding to reach the right discovery of sin | 1 ibid 2 An incapability also to receive Spiritual Light. | 45 3 Christ forceth the Understanding to bear the […] of his Spirit, whereby […] | 47 1 Destroys the Sovereignty of […] Reason | 48 2 Fits it to receive the impression of Spiritual Light | 50 4 This Light received, the Understanding is acted by it, and so acts in virtue of it, and so the sinner comes truly to see his sins. | 51 3 Wherein this true sight of sin is discovered | 52 1 It is a clear sight of sin | 53 1 In regard of God, as | 54 1 It would dispossess God of his Sovereignty | 55 2 It smites at the Essence of God | 57 3 It spoils all the Works of God | 59 2 In regard of our selves, as | ibid 1 It separates […] God and […] | ibid 2 It makes us uncapable of any good | 60 ⟨image 569⟩3 It's the Cause of all other evils | 62 4 It brings a Curse upon all Blessings | ibid Hence sin is the greatest evil | ibid Why do not men see sin thus? | 166 The Causes are | ibid 1 The Delusions of Satan | ibid 2 Men judg of sin by present sense | 67 3 Or by present pleasure and profit | 68 4 Or by the long suffering of God | 70 5 Want of Spiritual Light | 71 The Cure of these mistakes | 72 1 Look upon sin so as it will look upon thee at death and Judgment | ibid 2 Get a clear sight of God | 73 2 It is a convicting […] | 75 That implies | 1 A particular application to our selves | ibid 1 A man must reflect upon his own sins | ibid 2 And pass an impartial Sentence against them | 78 1 An over-pouring settling of them upon the Conscience, and that | 79 1 Undeniably | 80 2 Immovably | 82 3 Invincibly | 85 Reasons two. Because | 1 Nothing comes to the heart but by the Understanding | 86 2 Ignorance frustrates all our Endeavours in the use of means | 88 Uses five, hence | 1 Instruction:

DOCT. 2. There must be a true sight of sin, before the heart can be broken for it | 35 For Explication, four things: | 1 How God works this sight of sin | 37 1 The Law of God discovers our sins | ibid 2 There is a new Light put into the mind | 38 3 The Spirit takes the Rule of darkness out of the mind | 41 4 The Spirit leaves a set upon the understanding God-ward | 42 2 How far the sinner is in this sight of sin | 43 1 There is an insufficiency in the Understanding to reach the right discovery of sin | 1 ibid 2 An incapability also to receive Spiritual Light. | 45 3 Christ forceth the Understanding to bear the of his Spirit, whereby | 47 1 Destroyes the Soveraignty of Reason | 48 2 Fits it to receive the impression of Spiritual Light | 50 4 This Light received, the Understanding is acted by it, and so acts in vertue of it, and so the sinner comes truly to see his sins. | 51 3 Wherein this true sight of sin is discovered | 52 1 It is a cleer sight of sin | 53 1 In regard of God, as | 54 1 It would dispossess God of his Soveraignty | 55 2 It smites at the Essence of God | 57 3 It spoils all the Works of God | 59 2 In regard of our selves, as | ibid 1 It separates God and | ibid 2 It makes us uncapable of any good | 60