The application of redemption

and follow yet further and see his end, he ends his days and his comforts together, his covetousness continued in so long before, prepared a halter for his ruin. Look not upon Corab Dathan and Abiram, when they ruffle it out in the pride of their ⟨p. 329⟩hearts, and out-brave Moses, and the authority of his place, ye take too much upon you, ye sons of […] ¹but see the Earth open and swallow him and his company of rebels and all the people flying and crying least we perish also.

and follow yet further and see his end, he ends his dayes and his comforts together, his covetousness continued in so long before, prepared a halter for his ruin. Look not upon Corab Dathan and Abiram, when they ruffle it out in the pride of their ⟨p. 329⟩hearts, and out-brave Moses, and the authority of his place, ye take too much upon you, ye sons of 〈…〉 ¹but see the Earth open and swallow him and his company of rebells and al the people flying and crying least we perish also.

1. 1Num. 16. 31. 32. 33.

It is one (and not the least) part of the power of the redemption of our Saviour that he gave himself for us, that he might deliver us from this present evil world. Gal. 1. 4. not because world only, or evil alone, but from the presentness of it, to deliver and free our hearts & apprehensions, from the two much attending and false conceiveings of those present appearances of these false lying vanities; we cannot judg amiss if we look at the end of Godly men, and a Godly life, not at the present inconveniences that are light and momentary which do attend them.