The application of redemption

He that is willing to part with his sin, he takes greatest delight in those means which either discover his sin more fully, and work most kindly upon the heart, that godly sorrow which causeth Repentance never to be repented of, and are the most piercing and powerful to remove it from him. For it's the greatest delight that can befall a man to have his will and desires answered: that which the Will desires most to have when it wants, it delights most in when it hath it. It is so in the diseases of the Body, when the blood is foul and so feverish, and fit to cause a Pleurisy, the Humours gross and […], and molest the stomach, so that Nature desires to be unburdened; he that hits the right vein, and that Physic which works kindly and strongly upon the right humour: the Patient receives marvellous ease, and Nature special relief and refreshing; that which takes away most of the burden, bring most ease. So it is with a soul truly willing to be severed from his sin, being burdened and infested with the venomous pollution thereof, it finds most delight in that Ordinance that works most kindly and effectually upon it; the saddest counsel, the sharpest reproof, the most searching trial, that ransacks every corner of a corrupt conscience, now a man hath his Will, and is marvellously pleased with it.

He that is willing to part with his sin, he takes greatest delight in those means which either discover his sin more fully, and work most kindly upon the heart, that godly sorrow which causeth Repentance never to be repented of, and are the most piercing and powerful to remove it from him. For it's the greatest delight that can befal a man to have his will and desires answered: that which the Will desires most to have when it wants, it delights most in when it hath it. It is so in the diseases of the Body, when the blood is foul and so feaverish, and fit to cause a Pleuresie, the Humors gross and 〈…〉, and molest the stomach, so that Nature desires to be unburdened; he that hits the right vein, and that Physick which works kindly and strongly upon the right humor: the Patient receives marvelous ease, and Nature special relief and refreshing; that which takes away most of the burden, bring most ease. So it is with a soul truly willing to be severed from his sin, being burdened and infested with the venemous pollution thereof, it finds most delight in that Ordinance that works most kindly and effectually upon it; the saddest counsel, the sharpest reproof, the most searching tryal, that ransacks every corner of a corrupt conscience, now a man hath his Will, and is marvelously pleased with it.