The application of redemption

Hence we may learn: It is the heaviest plague in¹ the world for a natural man to have his own will: It is the direful dread of the vengeance of the Lord when he delivers a man up to the distemper of his ⟨p. 327⟩own heart, to follow it, and to have it, and to be under the power of it; and that follows thus. To be severed from God, and never to be severed from his sins, is the greatest plague in the world: But […] man naturally will never be severed from his sins, this is the desire of his heart: therefore to have this, is the heaviest plague that can befall a man in this world. As it is in Psal. 81. 11. Israel would none of me, so I gave them up to the lusts of their own hearts, to walk in their own counsels: Is it so? That as they did, thou dost; and as they would, thou wouldst; that thou professedst the same inwardly, I will none of the ways of God, but I will have my own will and my own lusts, then this is the plague of God upon thy soul, thou shalt have thy […], and Hell with them too; thou shalt have nothing of God, nothing of his Grace here, nor of his Glory hereafter. Hath the Lord so ordered it towards thee, That as its said of David, he never displeased Adonijah, never crossed him of his will, so thou hast had thy will still, and hast prospered in a […] course, this is a sign that God never intends good to thy soul, that he hath thus delivered thee up to the distempers of thy own heart. When Physicians give men for gone, they leave them, and say, Let him eat what he will, if he call for Milk, or Drink, let him have it, he's but a dead man, live he cannot. Is it so with thee? That God hath given thee over, and left thee to thy self, that now thou hast what thou wilt, and dost what thy corrupt will carries thee to. This is the most dreadful plague of all, Thou dost walk in the counsels of thine own heart, to thy own eternal ruin.

Hence we may learn: It is the heaviest plague in¹ the world for a natural man to have his own will: It is the direful dread of the vengeance of the Lord when he delivers a man up to the distemper of his ⟨p. 327⟩