The application of redemption

The Soul comes now not to be acted by the motions §4of sin, nor carried by the temptations of Satan as formerly, that howsoever its true, that while Satan Converseth here in the Camp of the Saints in the Warfare of this world, and while we carry these bodies, the houses of Clay without us, and a body of Death within us; It cannot be but […] and Satan will give many assaults and press in mightily upon the soul, and with the violence of their Charge sometimes may crowd the soul out of its intended Course of spiritual Conversation, and jostle it aside out of the right way, yet they shall never be able to prevail, as to pervert the frame of it: but the set, and face, and frame of the soul will be towards God, and the bent of it for him.

The Soul comes now not to be acted by the motions §4of sin, nor carried by the temptations of Satan as formerly, that howsoever its true, that while Satan Converseth here in the Camp of the Saints in the Warfare of this world, and while we carry these bodies, the houses of Clay without us, and a body of Death within us; It cannot be but 〈…〉 and Satan wil give many assaults and press in mightily upon the soul, and with the violence of their Charge somtimes may crowd the soul out of its intended Course of spiritual Conversation, and justle it aside out of the right way, yet they shal never be able to prevail, as to pervert the frame of it: but the set, and face, and frame of the soul wil be towards God, and the bent of it for him.

Hence Christ is said by Death to destroy him that had the Power of Death, that is the Devil. Heb. 2. 14. To destroy him (in the Original) is to take off the Activity of Satan, and by a deadly blow to stay the prevailing virtue of any temptation, as that it shall not sway the soul to its bent, though it may hinder the soul and dull the acts of it in the daily exercise of spiritual Duties. Look as it is in a Bowl that is strongly biassed one way, and so carried to the mark, however by many rubs and ruggedness of the way, it may be turned aside and jostled out of the right tract, yet it sets toward the mark, and is carried that way, and will fall that way by the force of the bias that doth over-sway it. So it is here, The Spirit of the Lord that lays hold upon the soul, is like the weight of this bias, that is fastened to it, and closeth with it: So that however the strength of temptation or corruption may by a