The application of redemption

And we are the rather to have our hearts and judgments established in this Truth, because the contrary Opinion, to wit, That Christ may be united to the soul remaining in the state of Corruption, is a brooding Error, that brings out a whole nest and company of delusions with it, which will pollute and pervert the Judgment, and defile our Practices in our daily Conversations.

And we are the rather to have our hearts and judgments established in this Truth, because the contrary Opinion, to wit, That Christ may be united to the soul remaining in the state of Corruption, is a brooding Error, that brings out a whol nest and company of delusions with it, which will pollute and pervert the Judgment, and defile our Practices in our dayly Conversations.

1 This maintains the sinner in a careless and remorseless security, and fondly persuades, that which is so pleasing to the flesh, that a man may keep his lusts and his Christ, his comfort and his corruption together than which nothing is more contentfull to a carnal heart: A Christ and a Lust, A Christ and a proud heart; A Christ and a World; A Christ and a peevish Nature; Oh such a Christ pleaseth us well, but such a Christ will never do us good. 2 This makes a man bold to adventure upon the commission of the grossest evil, this makes him fearless to continue in it, makes him negligent and regardless by godly sorrow and saving repentance to recover out of it, he passeth not, he cares not, to take his poison and to drink it in, as his daily diet; he carries his […] about him and that which will undoubtedly cure him: he may yet maintain union with Christ, and communion with his cursed Lusts. 3 This makes a man slight in holy services, so as neither to put a price upon them, nor to see an excellency in them, or judg aright of the necessity of such ⟨p. 159⟩performances, he becomes sleepy and heartless in what he doth; he is sure of a Christ, that will answer all, and therefore he troubles not himself with holy duties; if he stumble upon the doing of them, so: if he neglect the doing of them, so: he hath a way to help all, he can have a Christ, (he conceives) without these; and therefore he makes no great matter whether he do these or no. 4 Nay if he may have union to Christ while he is in his corruption, if so: he is then in a good estate; for he that hath the son […] life,