The application of redemption

But if the Lord do not only curb a sinner, or hack and rough hew him a little by the word, but cut him off, as a branch or scion fit for a saviour he will never let him lie and wither. Look then to those sinful lusts, those special and beloved corruptions unto which thy heart hath ben so strongly tied and linked, and whereby Satan and thy corrupt heart have entrenched themselves, and set up as so many strong holds against the Lord Christ, the work of his spirit and power of his truth, as being in league and confederacy with these noisome distempers; Hast thou felt the tyranny and treachery of them, that bondage and bitterness unto which thou art brought, that thou longest, and breathest after relief and deliverance,§3 and the coming of a Christ, that thou mayest deliver up thy self and all into his hands, and thou findest thy soul opposite to that that hath been opposite and cross to Christ: Isay 59. 20. The Redeemer shall come out of Zion who are those? to them that turn from transgression, If the Lord turn thy soul he will Redeem thy soul, and if ever he Redeem thee he will turn thy soul from thy transgressions, he will make a divorce between thy soul and sin; Hast thou found ⟨p. 170⟩the strong man bound, those temptations which formerly were so sweet thou couldest not […] them, those corruptions which were so natural, that thou couldest not but yield obedience yea willingly resign up thy self to the authority and right of […] they challenged over thee, and thou wentest as an […] to the slaughter and as a fool to the stocks: But now thy heart is revolted from that right and power these corruptions and temptations had over thee, and thou waitest only for a way of escape, now thou art for a Christ, and he will be for thee, for such as thou art alone.

But if the Lord do not only curb a sinner, or hack and rough hew him a little by the word, but cut him off, as a branch or scion fit for a savior he will never let him lie and wither. Look then to those sinful lusts, those special and beloved corruptions unto which thy heart hath ben so strongly tyed and linked, and whereby Satan and thy corrupt heart have intrenched themselves, and set up as so many strong holds against the Lord Christ, the work of his spirit and power of his truth, as being in league and confederacie with these noysom distempers; Hast thou felt the tyranny and treachery of them, that bondage and bitterness unto which thou art brought, that thou longest, and breathest after relief and deliverance,