The application of redemption

2. We may know it by a sinking discouragement of heart. When the soul wearied with delays and differings, and expectation, sits down in a […] condition; because he cannot have what he will, he will cast away what he hath, and conceives he may be careless of what he might attain. As David said, I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul, 1 Samuel, 27. 1. All men are liars, Psal. 116. 11. Alas! Jam not fit to Pray or to Hear; I find my heart worse after it, none was ever in such a case as I: better never to use the means, than never to have benefit by them; better never to enjoy the Ordinances and Privileges of God, than to get no good by them: How now! Better never use the means? It would be better, and best of all, if you were deeply humbled and abased in the sight of your own vileness. As the Apostle says, What if God will not? What […] he will never pardon your sins or show mercy to your soul? If he give you nothing, doth he […] you any thing? You think your worthiness is not attended, you secretly think the Lord hath forgot himself, your parts and performances, your […] and prayers, diligence and endeavours, ought upon due, to be remembered and recompensed.

2. We may know it by a sinking discouragement of heart. When the soul wearied with delayes and differings, and expectation, sits down in a 〈…〉 condition; because he cannot have what he will, he will cast away what he hath, and conceaves he may be careless of what he might attain. As David said, I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul, 1 Samuel, 27. 1. All men are lyars, Psal. 116. 11. Alas! Iam not fit to Pray or to Hear; I find my heart worse after it, none was ever in such a case as I: better never to use the means, than never to have benefit by them; better never to enjoy the Ordinances and Priviledges of God, than to get no good by them: How now! Better never use the means? It would be better, and best of all, if you were deeply humbled and abased in the sight of your own vileness. As the Apostle saies, What if God will not? What 〈…〉 he will never pardon your sins or shew mercy to your soul? If he give you nothing, doth he you any thing? You think your worthiness is not attended, you secretly think the Lord hath forgot himself, your parts and performances, your and prayers, diligence and endeavors, ought upon due, to be remembered and recompenced.