The application of redemption

The great Complaint is, The unsteadiness of their ¹[…] thoughts, which (as they conceive) […] from some kind of natural […], whereby they are wholly disenabled in their own apprehension, and common experience, to keep their minds to any set employment and exercise in this so serious a work of Meditation, they are so off and on upon every occasion, a […] and wandering frame of Imagination, that cannot dwell upon a thing; nay, though they resolve it sadly, withdraw themselves from all other occasions into their private Closets, and there retire and set themselves on ⟨p. 230⟩purpose about this business, as being convinced it is so needful, and being persuaded it would be so profitable to them, yet immediately they are taken off, they are gone from their task, when they had begun now to bestow their attention upon the Duty; that look what a shaking palsy is to the head, there is no stilling of it, while a man lives it will follow him; so this shattering and giddiness of our minds, unsettles us when we would be most serious, and doth accompany us in every retired corner, and that upon every turn, as a disease and distemper of our natural apprehension; and it seems there is an impossibility to reform this feebleness, and therefore we hope we may be excused if we cannot perform this service, which is so necessary, and which we also endeavour, but as all men may see, we cannot accomplish.

The great Complaint is, The unsteadiness of their ¹〈…〉 thoughts, which (as they conceive) 〈…〉 from some kind of natural 〈…〉, whereby they are wholly disenabled in their own apprehension, and common experience, to keep their minds to any set imployment and exercise in this so serious a work of Meditation, they are so off and on upon every occasion, a 〈…〉 and wandring frame of Imagination, that cannot dwel upon a thing; nay, though they resolve it sadly, withdraw themselves from al other occasions into their private Closets, and there retire and set themselves on ⟨p. 230⟩