The application of redemption

Here is a ground of Encouragement to sustain the¹ hearts of such forlorn Creatures as are sunk down in desperate §2discouragement, as past help and hope; to provoke them yet to seek out for help and recovery, and to expect to receive it from the hand of the Lord. That Disease is not past Remedy which hath been cured: nor the Condition past hope that hath been recovered. As bad and vile as thou have been humbled and brokenhearted, and why not thou saved? Turn but thy thoughts aside, and attend the Text, and trust thine own eyes; behold, look here upon the most loathsome Hellhounds that […] the Sun saw; or the Earth bore, listen and hear these hideous blasphemies, they belch out against² the Son of God, they cried, away with him, away with him; not him, but Barabbas; they choose a Murderer rather than a Saviour: behold their butcherly hands imbrued in the blood of Jesus, some goring his side, others nailing his feet, piercing his pure and holy hands; and that they might be bloody Creatures indeed, they do not only shed his blood, but they keep his blood upon Record for their Condemnation, say they, His Blood be upon us, and upon our Seed. That³ which they have done, and desired for their own ruin, is it not just but they should have it? dost not thou wonder that the Earth did not open and swallow them? that the Lord did not thunder from Heaven, and immediately destroy them? or that he sent not Legions of Devils to drag those wretches souls out of their Bodies ⟨p. 27⟩to send them packing to the pit? And yet stay but a little, and see what God hath done, in the midst of all this hellish wickedness, look a little further; they who took away the life of Christ, he is now taking away their […], and guilt from them; they crucified him, and he is now crucifying their cursed corruptions; they pierced his tender body to put an end to his days, he is now piercing their souls with Godly sorrow to put an end to their sins and […]. Come hither therefore all you poor desolate undone Creatures, You whose sins are written ⁴