The application of redemption

| 667 Motives to Confession, | 1 It's an honourable thing | ibid. 2 A matter of safety | 668 3 A Means of Secrecy. | ibid.

| 667 Motives to Confession, | 1 It's an honorable thing | ibid. 2 A matter of safety | 668 3 A Means of Secrecy. | ibid.

DOCT. 18. The soul that is pierced for sin, is carried with a restless dislike against it, and separation from it. | 670 Branch 1. Detestation, or hatred of sin. Concerning which, for Explication two things | 672 1 What is the Nature of this hatred of sin here in Contrition, discovered in six Conclusions | 673 ⟨image 580⟩1 As Adam, and all his departed from God, so Christ brings back all his to God in a contrary way. | 673 2 There is nothing in the soul can turn it from sin. | 674 3 This first aversion from sin, is not wrought by any habit of Grace put into the soul. | ibid. Reasons two. Because | 1 Gracious habits cannot act before they have being in the soul, as the subject of them. | 675 2 The soul in its natural estate, is uncapable of receiving the habit of Grace | ibid. 4 Yet the Spirit puts forth its power upon the soul to turn it from sin to God | ibid. 5 Christ as the Head of the Covenant, takes away the Commission that sin and Satan had to hold the soul. | 676 6 The soul in the Nature of it, being forced to find sin bitter, is loosened from it, and so becomes subject to the power of the Spirit, turning of it from sin to God | 677 2 How this hatred may be discerned | 680 1 It is attended with a continual fear of the deadly infection of sin | ibid. 2 It seeks the destruction of sin. Hence | 684 1 He opposeth sin most in himself | ibid. 1 He doth what he can against it. | 685 2 He seeks help from God in Christ. | 686 2 He seeks the removal of it in others where-ever he finds it | 688 3 It admits no terms of agreement | 689 Reasons three. Because | 1 Without this, there is no room for faith | 690 2 Without this no expectation of Salvation from Christ. | ibid. 3 Sin is the only enemy of the Soul. | 691 Uses two, hence. ⟨image 580⟩