The application of redemption

Now look, as when among the Jews, Religion had run into Factions, and Parties, and the power of it thereby, was […] lost; God then set down John […] amongst them, a sour and severe Preacher, & Urger of the Doctrine of […], and preparative Humiliation for sin (which he comparatively to what was brought in by Christ, termeth the Baptism of Water) though withal 'tis said, that in the Close of his Doctrine, […] pointed unto Christ; Saying unto the people, that they should believe on him that should come after him; that is, on Jesus Christ. Yet this he did but […] at: for the full ⟨image 5⟩[…] of his Dispensation ran in that other Channel. Of whose Ministry […] is also said Luk. 1. 16. 17. That […] of the Children of Israel should he turn to […] Lord, their God. And shall go before him (namely Christ) in the spirit and power of […] to turn the hearts of the Fathers to their Children, and the Disobedient to the […] of the just to make ready a people […] for the Lord. The meaning whereof is, he came to restore the Doctrine of […] Conversion, and in that point […] bring and reduce the Children of the […] back again unto the same […] and ways (necessary to Salvation) […] which the Fathers, and all the […] Saints of the old Testament […] been brought in unto God. And […] by that means to become of the same Religion (saving Conversion being the […] practic Foundation and Centre […] all Religion) that the Godly Jews […] old were of. So what know we, but […] God (in some lesser, proportionate […], both in respect of ⟨image 6⟩persons and times) may have had this in the eye of all wisely designing Providence to set out this great Authors works and writings (amongst the labours of others also) upon this very Argument, to bring back, and correct the Errors of the spirits of Professors of these times (and perhaps by urging too far, and insisting too much upon that as Preparatory, which includes indeed the beginnings of true Faith, (And a man may be held too long under John Baptists water) To rectify those that have slipped into Profession, and Leapt over all both true and deep Humiliation for sin, and sense of their natural Condition; yea and many over Christ himself too, professing to go to God without him.

Now look, as when among the Jews, Religion had run into Factions, and Parties, and the power of it thereby, was lost; God then set down John amongst them, a sowr and severe Preacher, & Urger of the Doctrine of , and preparative Humiliation for sin (which he comparatively to what was brought in by Christ, termeth the Baptism of Water) though withal 'tis said, that in the Close of his Doctrine, pointed unto Christ; Saying unto the people, that they should beleeve on him that should come after him; that is, on Jesus Christ. Yet this he did but at: for the ful