The application of redemption

DOCT. 16. They who are truly pierced for their sins, do prize and covet deliverance from their sins. | ibid. 1 In the want of this, the soul is not quieted | 610 2 He is content with this, though he want other things | 611 3 He is resolved to submit to any Counsel | 613 4 His […] is upon it, his prayers daily about it. | 614 Reasons three. Because he finds that | 1 The presence of other evils will not hinder him in his spiritual estate | 615 2 The presence of sin alone poisons all good things to him | 616 3 The removal of this would set open the floodgates of mercy. | 617 Uses two, hence. | 1 See the reason why most men prize not Salvation, because never broken-hearted. | ibid 2 Reproof to | 1 Secure sinners | 618 2 […] Professors. | ibid.

DOCT. 16. They who are truly pierced for their sins, do prize and covet deliverance from their sins. | ibid. 1 In the want of this, the soul is not quieted | 610 2 He is content with this, though he want other things | 611 3 He is resolved to submit to any Counsel | 613 4 His 〈…〉 is upon it, his prayers dayly about it. | 614 Reasons three. Because he finds that | 1 The presence of other evils will not hinder him in his spiritual estate | 615 2 The presence of sin alone poysons all good things to him | 616 3 The removal of this would set open the floodgates of mercy. | 617 Uses two, hence. | 1 See the reason why most men prize not Salvation, because never broken-hearted. | ibid 2 Reproof to | 1 Secure sinners | 618 2 〈…〉 Professors. | ibid.

DOCT. 17. True Contrition is accompanied with Confession of sin, when God calls thereunto. | 619 For Explication, three things. | 1 When a sinner is called to Confession | 619 1 Public sins must be publicly confessed | 621 2 Private sins to the persons wronged | 624 3 Secret sins | 625 ⟨image 579⟩1 If a man hath confessed them to God, and he hath pardoned, he need not, should not confess them to men. | 626 2 If the Lord deny pardon and power, then he calls him to confess unto man | 628 3 In case restitution cannot otherwise be made, he must confess to man | 629 2 When is Confession serious and hearty | 630 1 When it is free; that is, when a man is, | 1 Easy to be convinced | ibid. 2 Ready to acknowledge | 633 3 And takes the evil to himself | 636 2 When it is full, and that in regard of | ibid. 1 Relating sins as they are | 638 2 The opposition of the heart against them. | 639 3 When it leaves the sinner base in his own eyes. | 640 4 When he intends to take advantage against himself and his sin by it. | ibid. 3 How doth Contrition bring in this Confession? | 641 It causeth a man | 1 To see the danger of sin | ibid. 2 To feel the bitterness of it | 643 3 To be ashamed of himself and sin | 645 Uses four, hence. | 1 Instruction: See the reason of sinful turnings and windings to hide sin | 646 2 Reproof to such as think it weakness and baseness thus to confess a mans sins | 647 3 Trial whether a man hath been brought to this frame of spirit, thus to confess sin when called thereunto. | 650 It discovers the falseness of four sorts | 1 Such as out of hardness of heart, and custom, are without all sense of sin. | 651