The application of redemption

First those who were typed out by the unclean beasts §1in the Law, who never chew the cud nor call over their courses by serious meditation, who studiously endeavour to contrive all ways and means how they may take off their minds from this service; their care for themselves and their counsel also unto others, is to shake off these dumps as they call them; they look at this mopish kind of Melancholy musing, as a practice deeply prejudicial to their peace and comfort, conceive it as ⟨p. 225⟩a piece of extreme folly, as though a man should not find trouble enough in the world, but should devise means to torment and vex his own soul; and therefore they avoid the meditation of the danger of […] sins, as their rack and engine of unsufferable vexation, and that upon a double ground; partly, that they might not be crossed in their sensual […], but that they might have elbow room and go on with ease in their ungodly lusts, whereas the consideration of the danger of our sinful […], damps & dashes mens delights, deeds mens endeavours, and hearts, knocks off their wheels that they draw heavily, spoils all the sport as we say, and deprives them of the pleasures they did expect. Therefore it is a rule of […], Amos. 6. 3. 4. 5. they put far away the evil day, and then […] the seat of violence to draw near, &c. q. […]. the thoughts of that would spoil the other. Partly, it ariseth from hence, the privy guilt of their own Consciences makes their hearts misgive them; The number of their abominations is so great, the nature so heinous, the plagues so direful and dreadful which attend upon them as their due that they are afraid to view, the ugly visage of their sins, or to take a right scantling of the dreadful plagues they must expect, and therefore study to forget both, that they may not be tired with either, as bankrupts are loth to view their account books when they cannot pay their debts, they would not remember what they are not able to satisfy.

First those who were typed out by the unclean beasts §1in the Law, who never chew the cud nor cal over their courses by serious meditation, who studiously endeavour to contrive all waies and means how they may take off their minds from this service; their care for themselves and their counsel also unto others, is to shake off these dumpes as they cal them; they look at this mopish kind of Melancholly musing, as a practice deeply prejudicial to their peace and comfort, conceive it as