The application of redemption

These desperate wretches who had imbrued their hands in the blood of the Lord Jesus, and now in an impudent manner set themselves, to out-brave the servants ⟨p. 335⟩of Christ, and his Word and Ordinances also: the Lord he handles them roughly, suitable to their rebellious carriages towards him; they had pierced the Body of our Saviour, and exercised his soul with unsupportable sorrows; he pierced their hearts, they openly and impudently professed their cruel and accursed rage, not him, but […]; Cruc. fie him, crucify him. He forceth them to proclaim the loathsomeness of this their way, in the view of the world: they before the multitude, scorned the Apostles; he forceth them now in the face of the people, to reverence and acknowledge them as the dear Servants of God. The Lord knows how to deal with men, answerable to their sinful dealings with him, and the […] of their hearts, and doth thus with scandalous ones, and not only those whose lewdness and wickedness lies open to the view of the world, but with such also who are many times more retired, and carry it more cunningly and closely from the eyes of men, if yet their evils be gross, in which they live and lie; as such which oppose the light of Reason, the Dictates of Conscience, the remainder of those common Principles which are left in the corrupt Nature of men; as murder, theft, forgeries, adulteries, though molewarplike they carry it never so secretly, dig deep to hide their counsel, and contrivement from God and man, yet commonly God breaks open their Conscience, breaks in with dreadful terror upon such, plucks those sweet morsels out of their maws, and constrains them to vomit out those bosom abominations by open confession after one manner or other, to some one or many. I say, it's Gods usual manner so to deal, with such, which implies he may deal so with others, but usually so with these.

These desperate wretches who had embrewed their hands in the blood of the Lord Jesus, and now in an impudent manner set themselves, to out-brave the servants ⟨p. 335⟩of Christ, and his Word and Ordinances also: the Lord he handles them roughly, suitable to their rebellious carriages towards him; they had pierced the Body of our Savior, and exercised his soul with unsupportable sorrows; he pierced their hearts, they openly and impudently professed their cruel and accursed rage, not him, but ; Cruc. fie him, crucifie him. He forceth them to proclaim the loathsomness of this their way, in the view of the world: they before the multitude, scorned the Apostles; he forceth them now in the face of the people, to reverence and ackn̄owledg them as the dear Servants of God. The Lord knows how to deal with men, answerable to their sinful dealings with him, and the of their hearts, and doth thus with scandalous ones, and not only those whose lewdness and wickedness lies open to the view of the world, but with such also who are many times more retired, and carry it more cunningly and closely from the eyes of men, if yet their evils be gross, in which they live and lie; as such which oppose the light of Reason, the Dictates of Conscience, the remainder of those common Principles which are left in the corrupt Nature of men; as murder, theft, forgeries, adulteries, though molewarplike they carry it never so secretly, dig deep to hide their counsel, and contrivement from God and man, yet commonly God breaks open their Conscience, breaks in with dreadful terror upon such, plucks those sweet morsels out of their maws, and constrains them to vomit out those bosom abominations by open confession after one manner or other, to some one or many. I say, it's Gods usual manner so to deal, with such, which implies he may deal so with others, but usually so with these.