The application of redemption

Stubborn and bloody sinners; may be made brokenhearted ¹sinners: Bloody, hellish, abominable […] may yet obtain broken hearts; worse than these could hardly be conceived or imagined, and yet God makes work of these knotty way ward Spirits; It was said of him that betrayed Christ, it had been good for him that be had never been born. What shall we say of them that murdered our Saviour? they are in the highest rank of the most wicked men that ever were born, yet even such as […], who also opposed the Word and Gospel of Grace, the Disciples and Apostles, the Preachers and Publishers of Grace, the Author and God of Grace; yet such as these have now their hearts broken, and in some measure prepared to be partakers thereof.

Stubborn and bloody sinners; may be made brokenhearted ¹sinners: Bloody, hellish, abominable 〈…〉 may yet obtain broken hearts; worse than these could hardly be conceived or imagined, and yet God makes work of these knotty way ward Spirits; It was said of him that betrayed Christ, it had been good for him that be had never been born. What shall we say of them that murdered our Savior? they are in the highest rank of the most wicked men that ever were born, yet even such as 〈…〉, who also opposed the Word and Gospel of Grace, the Disciples and Apostles, the Preachers and Publishers of Grace, the Author and God of Grace; yet such as these have now their hearts broken, and in some measure prepared to be partakers thereof.

1. 1Doct.

The Apostle speaks of the Gentiles, Rom. 1. 29. That they were full of all unrighteousness; there can hardly be added any thing to the largeness of the expression: No sin worse for the kind, more for the number, greater for the measure, for they had all unrighteousness, all