The application of redemption

A Third sort who miss the way to the Lord Jesus, are such who indeed attend […] work in the right place, but spoil it in the doing; make an entrance but never come to any perfection, yea pervert it […] by their rash and unskilful proceeding: There be some quarrels and babbles raised between the soul and a mans sinful distempers, they begin to be at odds and contention, and therefore upon a push they purpose to part dwellings, because of some hard measure that they find unexpectedly from their beloved lusts: the venom thereof vexeth his spirit, and the sting of those terrors, and the righteous plagues which are now deserved and so presented before the view of the soul, makes him fall out with his corruptions, as having expected other and more pleasing dealing at their hands, and that upon their […] and pretences made, but ⟨p. 195⟩[…] he feels the bitterness thereof, and therefore can […] judg of them by his own sense and experience. and thus the terror and trouble and hart-smart which his sin hath wrought in him, sets him busily and resolutely to the reformation and amendment of it. and in this turn, there may be no Sin, he Sees or knows, but in his own apprehension, he would renounce all; no Service or duty but he doth approve and practise all: self-terror sets him a work for […] own honour or quiet; and pitch him at what narrowness you will he will Come to it. And as the dint of the blow is, and the power and strength of the ordinances under which he lives, and the Constant holding himself to the use and exercise of holy duties continue, this may continue long, and cause both Confidence and comfort with it. And this is a dangerous and desperate mistake being a preparative for a Child of the law i. e. to a legal reformation, not for the implantation of the soul into Christ: and here millions perish.

A Third sort who miss the way to the Lord Jesus, are such who indeed attend 〈…〉 work in the right place, but spoyl it in the doing; make an entrance but never come to any perfection, yea pervert it 〈…〉 by their rash and unskilful proceeding: There be some quarrels and babbles raised between the soul and a mans sinful distempers, they begin to be at ods and contention, and therefore upon a push they purpose to part dwellings, because of some hard measure that they find unexpectedly from their beloved lusts: the venom thereof vexeth his spirit, and the sting of those terrors, and the righteous plagues which are now deserved and so presented before the veiw of the soul, makes him sal out with his corruptions, as having expected other and more pleasing dealing at theirhands, and that upon their and pretences made, but