The application of redemption

they began on the wrong side, they contented themselves to […] the […], their outward conversation to manward, and left corruption in their hearts unsubdued, unremoved, and therefore our Saviour Christ calls them fools and hypocrites for their labour: What can you say to my life? what hath any man against me? if thou hast no more […] say for thy self than that comes to, thou hast nothing at all; […] thy heart be not cleansed from those jecret corruptions of thine.

they began on the wrong side, they contented themselves to 〈…〉 the 〈…〉, their outward conversation to manward, and left corruption in their hearts unsubdued, unremoved, and therefore our Savior Christ calls them fools and hypocrites for their labor: What can you say to my life? what hath any man against me? if thou hast no more 〈…〉 say for thy self than that comes to, thou hast nothing at al; 〈…〉 thy heart be not clensed from those iecret corruptions of thine.

Let me leave Two or Three Directions here, that ⟨p. 345⟩are just in my way, not interfering with any thing to be spoken afterward.

Know that the greatest work of Reformation, Repentance, and the comfort of a mans spiritual condition, it lies mainly in the Will: the greatest work and the greatest difficulty lies here, Brethren. If you look at it as a matter of ease, that thou canst do it with the turning of a hand, and make wash-work of it, thou never knewest it, and thou shalt never attain it: It's one of the Devils greatest delusions whereby he cozens thousands, to persuade men it's an easy matter to be Religious: No, […] know it, unless you find it the greatest work in the world, you will never find endeavours suitable, nor success answerable for the comfort of your own souls. Oh therefore that every man would go home convinced and persuaded, God hath helped me to temper my tongue, and to keep my hands, the Lord hath given me an enlightened Judgment, a reformed life, but Oh the difficult work is behind, this wretched heart of mine, the hardness of that, the impossibility of that! conclude it therefore, and resolve upon it, it will cost me hard work, and unless the Lord enable me, and set in mightily and constantly upon my soul, the work will never be done: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked,