The application of redemption

For Application, this Doctrine serves to Instruct, Reprove, Examine, and Exhort.

For our Instruction: Hence we should receive it,¹ and believe it for an everlasting Truth, That Christ cannot be united to the soul, while it continues in the state of Nature and Infidelity: The Doctrine formerly delivered, and the Reasons alleged for the proof thereof, do force this Conclusion beyond gainsaying: For if the sinner must be prepared and cut off from his Natural condition, before his Implantation, then while he is in his Natural and corrupt Estate, there can be no union and communion with the Lord Jesus; so the Apostle disputes, 2 Cor. 6. 16. What communion is there between Light and Darkness, Righteousness and Unrighteousness, Christ and Belial? wherefore he saith, Come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch no unclean thing, and I will be your God. We must come out of our distempers and corruptions ⟨p. 158⟩before Christ will come; if we touch any unclean thing, Christ will not touch us; that is, unless we be divorced from all our […], so as not to touch them with the touch of a marriage affection (so the Apostle 1 Cor. 7. 1. It's not good for a man to touch a woman; that is, to be married to her) we must thus be divorced before we can be married.

For our Instruction: Hence we should receive it,¹ and beleeve it for an everlasting Truth, That Christ cannot be united to the soul, while it continues in the state of Nature and Infidelity: The Doctrine formerly delivered, and the Reasons alleadged for the proof thereof, do force this Conclusion beyond gainsaying: For if the sinner must be prepared and cut off from his Natural condition, before his Implantation, then while he is in his Natural and corrupt Estate, there can be no union and communion with the Lord Jesus; so the Apostle disputes,