The application of redemption

they rebuked him, and he cried yet more earnestly, thou son of David have mercy on me; and our Saviour asked him, what ailest thou? what was his will set upon? Oh Lord that I may receive my sight. So it is with a sinner whose will is set to seek relief against his sins, if there be any opportunity offered, means afforded, any occasion that may lend relief against his sin, how speedily upon the least inkling will he listen to it? If Christ pass by, in Conference, in Communion, in public or private, in set seasons, or such as could not be expected; whereby the healing virtue of the blood of Christ may be dispensed, they greedily repair thither: and if the question be what wouldest thou? the Answer of the soul is, Oh Lord that I may receive power against my sin: and if he get it not he will be unweariable to pursue the Lord, until he hath attained it. So the lamenting Church they took unto themselves words, the sum and substance of all their requests, Hos. 14. 3. Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; not take away the punishments that pinch us, not the Judgments and terrors that may justly perplex us, in the times of our necessities, but take away our iniquities: A wicked man may have a velleity, some sleepy wish for a turn against his sin, for the attainment of his end, but it's but for a fit, and not for the removal of his sin, but some evil that it brings: Nay, the heart of an ungodly man holds counsels against the holy Commandments of the Lord, and plots how he may fitly put by the authority of the Truth that ⟨p. 338⟩would take away his evil, Job, 22. 18. The Counsel of the wicked is far from me. There is a […] purpose of Spirit to maintain some distemper which cannot be in a godly man.

they rebuked him, and he cried yet more earnestly, thou son of David have mercy on me; and our Savior asked him, what ailest thou? what was his will set upon? Oh Lord that I may receive my sight. So it is with a sinner whose wil is set to seek relief against his sins, if there be any opportunity offred, means afforded, any occasion that may lend relief against his sin, how speedily upon the least inkling will he listen to it? If Christ pass by, in Conference, in Communion, in publick or private, in set seasons, or such as could not be expected; whereby the healing vertue of the blood of Christ may be dispensed, they greedily repair thither: and if the question be what wouldest thou? the Answer of the soul is, Oh Lord that I may receive power against my sin: and if he get it not he will be unweariable to pursue the Lord, until he hath attained it. So the lamenting Church they took unto themselves words, the sum and substance of all their requests,