The application of redemption

The Evidences are Four.

He that is willing to part with his sin, is speedy and unweariable in seeking and improving of those §1means whereby he may get rid of it, and which may remove it from him. The Will is the great Wheel which sets all, and keeps all a going, and will cause ⟨p. 336⟩a man to break through all discouragements and […] that can be cast in the way, neither difficulties nor oppositions be they what they will be, can either daunt it wholly, or put it upon delays; the hands may be bound, the feet fettered, either want of liberties or opportunities may prejudice a […] practice, or the opposition may be so […] and fell, that may force a man for the while to cease the performance of his work, but if the will be settled and resolved that cannot be removed: So the Apostle, Rom. 7. 18. To will is present with me: though he cannot do what he is enjoined, God requires, and Duty […], yet he can will what he cannot do: so the Prophet David, Psal. 119. 4, 5. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy Precepts, Oh that my heart were so upright, and my ways so directed that I might keep them; I do not, I cannot do as my Duty is, but Oh that I could do so; I cannot do as I should, yet I cannot but wish it. This you shall find when the faithful are at the greatest under, when some spiritual damps and qualms come over their hearts, yet these privy yearnings of their hearts towards God and the ways of his Grace will appear: As in a swoon, when all the acts of the Senses are bound up, and the Pulse is not to be perceived, yet hold a glass to the mouth of a fainting man, and you shall perceive some […] breathing ever: So it is when all abilities, enlargements seem to fail; when temptations, desertions, and violent surprisal of some venomous distempers, take away sense and feeling, power and performance; yet you shall perceive his breathing, if you bring the soul to a Command or a Promise, Oh that my heart were so upright,