The application of redemption

Either Corruption must by violence be taken away¹ or else it will naturally and of its own accord go away, and depart from the soul. For it hath been in the former Conclusions manifested, That there must be a spiritual power put into the will before it can put forth a […] act. And while Corruption takes place, there is no place of entertainment […] this spiritual ability; therefore Corruption must be removed by violence. Naturally it will not go away, therefore by constraint it must be forced away. It will not depart away of its own accord, because of the […] and naturalness it […] to the heart in which it is. The Eye will not go out of the head in which it is seated, unless it be plucked out: The hand will not fall off from the body unless it be cut off: The Soul would not willingly forsake the Body unto which it is received, and in which it takes up its abode, unless by some […] […] which breaks the union betwixt it and the body it being driven away, and forced away. Now our lusts in our hearts are like the Members in our bodies, Col. 3. 6. They are tender as the eye, […] as the hand, as dear as our souls, yea, even the soul of our souls, and life of our lives, while we are and remain in our natural and corrupt estate. Therefore they must by constraint be driven out, they will not go out. yea, it is against Reason, and in truth cross to common Sense, That the quality should of its own nature […] from the subject, they who have agreement one with another, should as enemies, and as […] as be at odds and difference go from the other: and this is the Condition and Disposition […] […] the nature of man, they are in the nearest League of love one with another, ⟨p. 378⟩and therefore of themselves as in truth they cannot, so they would not depart one from another, Jer. 13. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots? Then may you also which are […] to do evil. They are not spots that are taken occasionally, or sootiness that is smeared upon them, but they issue out of their natural Constitution, and the very seed which they are made of: and therefore their nature must be altered before they can be removed.