The application of redemption

Follow sin by the fruits of it, as by the bloody footsteps, §3and see what havoc it makes in every place, where ever it comes: go to the prisons, and see […] many Malefactors ⟨p. 253⟩in Irons, so many Witches in the Dungeon; these are the fruits of […]; look aside, and there you shall see one drawn out of the pit where he was drowned; cast your eye but hard by, and behold another lying weltering in his blood, the knife in his Throat, and his hand at the knife, and his own hands become his Executioner; thence go to the place of Execution, and there you shall hear many prodigal and rebellious children and servants upon the Ladder, leaving the last remembrance of their untimely death, which their distempers have brought about. I was born in a good place where the Gospel was preached with plainness and power, lived under Godly Masters, […] Religious Parents; a holy and tender-hearted Mother I had, many prayers she made tears she wept for me, and those have met me often in the dark in my dissolute courses, but I never had a heart to hear and receive. All you stubborn and rebellious, hear and fear, and learn by my harms; hasten from thence into the Wilderness, and see Corah, […], and Abiram going down quick to Hell, and all the people flying and crying lest we perish also; Lo, this rebellion hath brought. Turn aside but to the red Sea, and behold all the Egyptians dead upon the shore; and ask who […] them and the story will tell you a […] […] was the cause of that direful confusion: From clience send your thoughts to the Cross where our Saviour was […], he who bears up Heaven and Earth with his Power, and behold those bitter and brinish […], […] hideous cries, My God, my God, why […] thou […] […]? And make but a peep-hole into Hell, […] […] your ear and listen to those […] of the Devils and damned, cursing the day that ever they were born, the […] that ever they enjoyed, the mercies that […] […] did […], the worm there […], and […] […] the […] there burning and […] goes out, and […] this […] […] done, and it will do so to all that […] it, […] […] […] it. Say thou therefore, and why not I ⟨p. 254⟩amongst the Witches upon the place of Execution, with Malefactors? why not I in Hell with the Devils? Since my sins are as theirs, my plagues might have been, and in the issue will be as theirs, unless I repent.