The application of redemption

Here is matter of Humiliation to every soul in the sight of God, who may sit down in silence & return home §1with shame to our own habitations, and here with sad hearts recall and remember our sins this day, and lift up our guilty hands to heaven for the neglect of so holy a duty which is grown so far out of date and men are grown so far from lending their endeavour to the discharge of this duty, that (as they speak of the Holy spirit in […] case, most may say of this) they make it a question whether ever there was such a thing, such a service in the world some are faulty in a […], some in a lesser degree, but all in one degree or […] […] justly to be condemned as coming exceeding […] […] this service, and so fall short of Gods […] […] us, and his blessing upon us and miss in the […] […] of the good we would do and the comfort we […] […], therefore we should go aside and plead ⟨p. 224⟩the sentence of the defiled leper, behold I am unclean I am unclean, Levit. 13. 45. every man fails in this, let every man ingeniously own and acknowledge his sin and that's the best way to make us to be humbled and abased for it, let every man lay his hand upon his heart, take it to himself. Oh this laying aside the duty of meditation its my sin, so say ye husbands and answer ye wives, its our sin also; speak ye parents to your […] this is our sin we have not practised nor taught it, answer the children and confess, no wonder we did not know it therefore never did it nor never could endeavour after it. And its our shame, each man hath a mind and can spend it unweariably where he sets himself, set but the covetous man about the world, the voluptuous man about his pleasure, each man about his comforts and conveniences and we sit at it, nay no man will suffer his thoughts to be taken off from these, they eat with them, drink with them, walk with them, talk with them. What a loathsome thing is it, others muse how to commit sin and we not how to redress it, they meditate how to contrive their own ruin, and shall not we how to prevent it?

Here is matter of Humiliation to every soul in the sight of God, who may sit down in silence & return home §1with shame to our own habitations, and here with sad hearts recal and remember our sins this day, and lift up our guilty hands to heaven for the neglect of so holy a duty which is grown so far out of date and men are grown so far from lending their endeavor to the discharge of this duty, that (as they speak of the Holy spirit in case, most may say of this) they make it a question whether ever there was such a thing, such a service in the world some are faulty in a , some in a lesser degree, but al in one degree or justly to be condemned as coming exceeding this service, and so fall short of Gods us, and his blessing upon us and miss in the of the good we would do and the comfort we , therefore we should go aside and plead