The application of redemption

Hence again we may see how cross to Reason and¹ common sense the corrupt carriage of ungodly men is, when they be left to their own wills: we look at it, not as a part of weakness, but a madness in truth; if a Malefactor will lie in the Dungeon, when means of deliverances is afforded; for a man to choose his fetters, and to keep on his chains and bolts, when he may be freed: yet this is the case and condition, yea the disposition of men who are not willing to be severed from their sins, nor to be set free from those chains of darkness wherewith they are fettered, and go up and down imprisoned in the world. Sin is compared to a deadly poison; the poison of Asps is under ⟨p. 330⟩their tongue, Rom. 3. 13. that is, Such […] which is deadly and venomous which admits no remedy, no cure, no recovery: Now, shouldest […] see a Patient that should be offended with the Medicine that would Cure him, or with the Physician that would counsel him, and recover him out of […] Disease? Or take it heinously, and grievously that any should keep him from drinking the Poison that would destroy him? Each man would conclude that his brain were more distempered than […] body, as doing that which is directly cross even to nature, which desires the preservation of it self, even in unreasonable Creatures. Turn but the tables as we say, consider aright thine own carriage, […] thou wilt confess it is thy case, thou art the man Thou art poisoned with the loathsome, and […] lusts of thine own Heart, which threaten thy everlasting ruin, and that beyond recovery in […] course of ordinary means; Thou art not able […] hear the Counsel that would direct thee for […] Cure, nor bear a savoury and seasonable […] which would take away the poison of those […] distempers: Thou canst not endure to be severe from that which will sever thy soul from God: […] canst not abide the Word, or the Messengers […] would take away that from thee which will take […] way thy peace, thy comfort, thy happiness and a Thus Herodias waited for the Baptists life, […] he endeavoured to cross her in her Incestuous […] and loathsome abominations, Mark 6. 19. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel, a secret grudge again him, and would have killed him: She lay at […] she was watchful and covetous to observe and […] any hint of opportunity offered to do him harm, because he desired, and endeavoured to do her the greatest good that he could.