The application of redemption

And first consider the danger of the mistake herein, to¹ miss here is to miscarry forever in the great work of our conversion, without any possibility of recovery or redress; If God never let a man see his evil its certain he never recovers him out of it. When he will prepare a people for destruction and cut out a people on purpose for confusion, and make them ripe for plagues he takes this course, Isa. 6. go thy ways and make the eyes of this people dim and their ears heavy that in seeing they may see and not perceive, hearing they may hear and not understand, least they should be converted and I should heal […], keep them there and they be safe enough from ever receiving any saving good. So our Saviour Math. 6. 21. 22. The light of the Body is the eye if the light within thee be darkness how great is that […] the whole […] is so; a wound here is never […] there is no hope of any good coming to a soul […] up in […] It's made a character, a brand that […] […] upon such as be reprobates Math. 13. 13. to you […] […] […] […] the mysteries of the kingdom, but to […] in […] that seeing they might see and not understand. ⟨p. 191⟩If there be but one gate to come into the way miss that & you miss the way so here, therefore when men are but one step between them and destruction they are thus discovered Math. 24. 37. they eat, they drank, they married and knew nothing until the flood […] and destroyed them all, As in a town where there is but one entrance or passage, block up that, there […] […] coming in, no going out, and […] no […] of relief. They go not out to seek any, none come in to bring any […], so here when the mind is blinded, there is no […] of the coming in of any good or for […] […] receive […], the passage of Grace and of mercy is wholly blocked up, therefore our Saviour is said to come to […] […] one […] ou by turning of you from your […], therefore you must see them before you turn from them, no seeing, no turning, no blessing.