The application of redemption

That restoration which comes by Christ, it brings a new face or frame upon the Creatures, even those that are of the most despicable condition, desolate persons, and hearts, and lives; when wicked men and their ways are like wildernesses overgrown with weeds. Then the Lord […] to the prisoners, go forth, and to such as are in darknest show your selves. They that were buried and over whelmed with the dimness of their own distempers and delusions, they should come out of the Dungeon and Grave of darkness: Be revealed; the word is in the Passive: the Truth should be revealed in you, to you, to give you ⟨p. 381⟩a light you had not, to act you, and carry you to see that you did not: your selves should be revealed to your selves, and your sins to your souls, the first is a power put into them, the second an act wrought in them, and by them, the word in the Original signifying both. So that though they might be pursued by their sins, they should never be imprisoned more, that was not now their state to be Prisoners, but to be free men for ever, though clouded with darkness of their sins, yet never overwhelmed with darkness, but they should be able to see their sins, and to see a way out of them, in which they should walk.

That restauration which comes by Christ, it brings a new face or frame upon the Creatures, even those that are of the most despicable condition, desolate persons, and hearts, and lives; when wicked men and their waies are like wildernesses overgrown with weeds. Then the Lord 〈…〉 to the prisoners, go forth, and to such as are in darknest shew your selves. They that were buried and over whelmed with the dimness of their own distempers and delusions, they should come out of the Dungeon and Grave of darkness: Be revealed; the word is in the Pastive: the Truth should be revealed in you, to you, to give you ⟨p. 381⟩a light you had not, to act you, and carry you to see that you did not: your selves should be revealed to your selves, and your sins to your souls, the first is a power put into them, the second an act wrought in them, and by them, the word in the Original signifying both. So that though they might be pursued by their sins, they should never be imprisoned more, that was not now their state to be Prisoners, but to be free men for ever, though clouded with darkness of their sins, yet never overwhelmed with darkness, but they should be able to see their sins, and to see a way out of them, in which they should walk.