The application of redemption

The Glass that is brittle, yet doth not break; […] doth not prevail against it while it is in a mans […] and kept from harm, but if it fall against a stone, the hardness of the stone severs the parts of it, brittleness takes occasion by that blow, and steps in and shatters it all in pieces: It breaks because brittle, for things that are not such, though they do fall, do not break; but that would not domineer & prevail but because of that blow: so it was with Adam, a glassy […], a mutable man, he falling against the Law; that opposing, pusheth him aside and delivers him up to the power of his corruptions, and they have dominion over him by reason of that ⟨p. 322⟩act of the Law delivering him up to his sins. […] is also the meaning of that place, 1 Cor. 15. 56. The strength of sin is the Law: Sin is as strong as the provoking and opposing power of the Law, for it falls in with it, and takes occasion to act the soul by it; and hence it is you shall ever find it, so far as we act by our own principles as under a Covenant of works, so far sin ever prevails. This lastly is the meaning of that text, Rom. 7. 6. wherein a man is said to be married to his sin, for the comparison holds. As long as the Husband lives, so long the Wife is bound, and is subject to him: so while we remain in our natural condition, under the Covenant of Works, we are in Covenant with our sins, and married to them so, that we cannot be to any other, we are hand-fasted and cannot part. 1 Sin claims a propriety in the soul. 2 Takes possession of it. 3 It wholly orders and acts it. (as the woman hath not power over her self but the man) On the […] side the Soul 1 Gives it self away to it. 2 Submits to the authority of it. And, 3 Is wholly acted by it.

The Glass that is brittle, yet doth not break; 〈…〉 doth not prevail against it while it is in a mans 〈…〉 and kept from harm, but if it fal against a stone, the hardness of the stone severs the parts of it, brittleness takes occasion by that blow, and steps in and shatters it al in pieces: It breaks because brittle, for things that are not such, though they do fall, do not break; but that would not domineer & prevail but because of that blow: so it was with Adam, a glassie , a mutable man, he falling against the Law; that opposing, pusheth him aside and delivers him up to the power of his corruptions, and they have dominion over him by reason of that