The application of redemption

We need not send up to Heaven to look into the Cabinet Counsels of Gods everlasting Decrees: ⟨p. 330⟩[…] ⟨p. 331⟩[…] ⟨p. 332⟩what is […] concerning us. Descend thou into thy own soul, thou hast that in thy bosom will be the best discovery of thy condition: Ask but honestly, plainly, and in earnest thy own heart, and that will cast the balance, and that beyond all question. Such as thy will is, such is thy condition; look what thou wouldest be, that thou art in truth, and in the account of the Almighty. The Lord cares […] for all the Court Complements thou canst express in the ways of Christianity; he […] not for […] thy fair […], and the quaint appearances of […]; was thy carriage gilt over with the most glorious shows of Godliness, and thy tongue tipped with the language of heaven; this will not do the deed. This would not answer the Lords expectation, nor thine own hopes and comforts in the issue. It was said concerning Eliab, Davids elder brother, when it was conceived that he should be the man appointed for the Kingdom, and indeed holy Samuel was deceived in his goodly stature, Surely this is the Lords Anointed: The Lord himself checks his judgment, Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh upon the heart, 1 Sam. 16. 7. Look we then as God looks, and judge we as he judgeth, if we would have comfort and truth in our judgment, that we may not fail in that, and so our hopes and happiness and all fail in the issue. Thou sayest, Thy […] is savoury and free, thy understanding large, thou art able to search the Mysteries of Grace, thou knowest in a great […] the things of Grace, and art able fully to express what thou knowest; and thou pretendest readiness and zeal for the service of the Lord. Thou […] all these are thus. And I say, What is thy heart thou lookest to these? I say, Look to thy heart, and then to these, that is Gods way. The people in Deut. 5. 28. ⟨p. 333⟩made as full and free a profession as all the world could desire, but the Lord desired somewhat more, […] went further, They have well said, but Oh that […] were such a heart in them, v. 29. It is the heart then that gives the casting Evidence of a mans condition, and will not deceive.