The application of redemption

Here, in these Treatises, thou hast his Heart from his own Hand, his own Thoughts drawn by his own Pencil. ⟨image 255⟩This is all truly and purely his own, not as preached only, but as written by himself in order to the Press; which may be a great satisfaction to all that honoured […] loved him (as who that was good, and knew him, did not?) especially […] that received benefit by those […] imperfect Editions. And we cannot but look at it as a blessed Providence of God, that the publishing of the same by others (in that manner that hath been mentioned) should have provoked him, and that by the excitation of the Church (whereof he was the Pastor in New-England) to go over again the same Materials in the Course of his Ministry amongst them, in order to the perfecting of it by his own hand for public Light, thereby to vindicate both himself and it from that wrong which otherwise had remained for ever irrecompensible.

Here, in these Treatises, thou hast his Heart from his own Hand, his own Thoughts drawn by his own Pensil. ⟨image 255⟩This is all truly and purely his own, not as preached only, but as written by himself in order to the Press; which may be a great satisfaction to all that honored 〈…〉 loved him (as who that was good, and knew him, did not?) especially 〈…〉 that received benefit by those 〈…〉 imperfect Editions. And we cannot but look at it as a blessed Providence of God, that the publishing of the same by others (in that manner that hath been mentioned) should have provoked him, and that by the excitation of the Church (whereof he was the Pastor in New-England) to go over again the same Materials in the Course of his Ministry amongst them, in order to the perfecting of it by his own hand for publick Light, thereby to vindicate both himself and it from that wrong which otherwise had remained for ever irrecompensible.