The application of redemption

Because sentence is not speedily executed, therefore the hearts of the sons of man are wholly set to do evil: because the Lord out of his long-suffering abates them the present feeling of the plagues and dreadfulness of their sins, therefore they determine it, there is no such poison in them.

Because sentence is not speedily executed, therefore the hearts of the sons of man are wholly set to do evil: because the Lord out of his long-suffering abates them the present feeling of the plagues and dreadfulness of their sins, therefore they determine it, there is no such poyson in them.

The Fifth and last cause of mistake, is want of that §5morning light, that Spiritual knowledge of God, and his Sovereign good pleasure over his Creatures, whereby he hath right to rule in the hearts of men, and they are bound to conform themselves thereunto. When the Lord Christ would discover the error and falseness of that self conceited presumption the Church of Laodicea had of her own worth, Rev. 3. 17. Thou sayest thou art rich and increased in goods, and wantest nothing: the reason he gives whence this erroneous apprehension came, was her ignorance, She knew not that she was poor and miserable, and blind, and naked; she wanted eyesalve to anoint […] eyes that she might see. The last resolution of these […] in a sinful carriage, our Saviour refers hither, John, 15. 21. All these things they will do unto you, because they have not known him that sent me. They wanted a spiritual understanding, and right conceiving of, God, and that was the reason they rushed into the crowd of all evils in a heedless and careless ⟨p. 70⟩[…] ⟨p. 71⟩