The application of redemption

They walk in […] […] of their minds; and the reason is […], they are strangers from the life of God. When our thoughts start aside from under the Government of Gods Wisdom, the Rule of Truth and stability, they wander up and down in the ways of error and vanity, and find no end or measure, follow vanity, and become vain, nor can they attain any stability before they return thither. As your vagabond beggars, and vagrant persons in the Country from whence we came, there is no possibility to fasten them to any employment, or settle them in any place before they come under the eye of Authority, and power of the Magistrate. So fares it with our vagabond and vagrant thoughts; further than they are under the eye of God, and awed with his presence, it's not possible to stop them from the pursuit of vanity, or confine them to settled consideration of that which […] our duty and comfort. The Rule is one, like it […] accompanied with stability and rest; if once we go astray from that, there is neither end nor quiet in error, but restlessness and emptiness. The Sea, while it keeps the Channel, the course is known, and the Mariners can tell how to advantage their […]; but if once it exceeds the banks, no man can tell whither it will go, or where it will stay. Our imaginations are like the vast Sea, while we eye the Rule, and are ordered by the Authority of it, we know our compass; but once go off, and we know not whither we shall go, or where we shall stay.

They walk in 〈…〉 〈…〉 of their minds; and the reason is 〈…〉, they are strangers from the life of God. When our thoughts start aside from under the Government of Gods Wisdom, the Rule of Truth and stability, they wander up and down in the waies of error and vanity, and find no end or measure, follow vanity, and become vain, nor can they attain any stability before they return thither. As your vagabond beggars, and vagrant persons in the Country from whence we came, there is no possibility to fasten them to any imployment, or settle them in any place before they come under the eye of Authority, and power of the Magistrate. So fares it with our vagabond and vagrant thoughts; further than they are under the eye of God, and awed with his presence, it's not possible to stop them from the pursuit of vanity, or confine them to setled consideration of that which 〈…〉 our duty and comfort. The Rule is one, like it 〈…〉 accompanied with stability and rest; if once we go astray from that, there is neither end nor quiet in error, but restlessness and emptiness. The Sea, while it keeps the Channel, the course is known, and the Marriners can tel how to advantage their ; but if once it exceeds the banks, no man can tel whither it wil go, or where it wil stay. Our imaginations are like the vast Sea, while we eye the Rule, and are ordered by the Authority of it, we know our compass; but once go off, and we know not whither we shal go, or where we shal stay.