The application of redemption

The place and duty of a Minister requires this, who¹ hath a special charge, and therefore should have a particular care to foresee, and so to prevent the particular and special evils, which he perceives to blemish the Christian course, and endanger the spiritual comforts of the people under his guidance and of whose safety he must give an account; and this will not be done unless a man single out the persons and set home their sins in special. The steward is not only to know […] several conditions of the persons in the family but to provide a portion suitable for each, if ever the safety of the whole be provided for; and the cordials for the weak, milk for the little ones, and stronger meat for those who are of able strength; the Skill of the Physician & the only way to cure a settled and inward distemper as the dropsy or falling sickness, is not to give the patient an ordinary purge, a common receipt; that every Quack-salver will do and do no good at all; But he must have that wisdom to hit the humour, and to provide ingredients that will suit the temper of the party and the […] nature of the disease; So it is the part of a skilful Minister to hit the humour of the heart of a sinner, to make a receipt on purpose to meet […] the particular distemper such as will work upon, or sluggishness pride hypocrisy, perverseness and as the medicine doth upon the spleen or choler, and so the Lord to the Prophet Ezek. 16. 2. Cause the house of Israel to know their abominations; The Sedulous shepherd who indeed would provide for the welfare of his sheep, its not enough that by common survey he casts his eye upon them, but he must pen them, and handle them, search them and […] ⟨p. 196⟩them, […] to their several ails, and such Maladies unto which they are subject. So a faithful Minister must […] with poor sinners, as with the Sheep commended to […] care and custody; he must find them in their particular evils, and follow them with application of special helps.

The place and duty of a Minister requires this, who¹ hath a special charge, and therefore should have a particular care to foresee, and so to prevent the particular and special evils, which he perceives to blemish the Christian course, and endanger the spiritual comforts of the people under his guidance and of whose safety he must give an account; and this wil not be done unless a man single out the persons and set home their sins in special. The steward is not only to know several conditions of the persons in the family but to provide a portion suitable for each, if ever the safety of the whol be provided for; and the cordials for the weak, milk for the little ones, and stronger meat for those who are of able strength; the Skil of the Physitian & the onely way to cure a settled and inward distemper as the dropsy or falling sickness, is not to give the patient an ordinary purge, a common receit; that every Quack-salver wil do and do no good at al; But he must have that wisdom to hit the humor, and to provide ingredients that wil suit the temper of the party and the nature of the disease; So it is the part of a skilful Minnister to hit the humor of the heart of a sinner, to make a receipt on purpose to meet the particular distemper such as wil worke upon, or sluggishness pride hypocrisie, perversness and as the medicine doth upon the spleen or choller, and so the Lord to the Prophet