The application of redemption

It shows, poor forlorn wretch that thou art in the §1way of mercy. God deals so with thee as he usually doth with those with whom he will deal well in the issue, he hath […] left thee to thy self and sins, and ceased striving with thee to stop thee and recall thee from thy sinful course, as commonly he doth when he delivers up a soul to the power of his corruption, with whom he intends no more to meddle, Isai. 1. 5. So he proceeds with the perverse and obstinate Jews, why should ye be smitten any more, ye fall away more and more; As the Father with the prodigal, my counsels cannot move thee, my blessings allure thee, all my corrections I have laid upon thee do not reclaim thee, take thy course therefore, and so casts him out of his family, and takes no […] care of him. But he whom he corrects most sharply for his faults, it's yet a pregnant evidence for the while that he purposeth to keep him. This is the day of Gods visitation, may be the last time of asking yet it is the time of […] and grace and the date of mercy. God is yet wrestling with thee as loath to leave thee to the malice of Satan, and the power of thy distempers, as he doth with them that he purposeth to do good unto Isai. 6. 9. when God would […] […] people for […], and devote and set them apart to destruction this is the way he takes Go make the hearts of this people fat, fatness implies […] brawny kind of stupidity, and senselessness of spirit. Then such persons are ripe and ready for destruction; when God plucks up the stake and gives a forlorn wretch the round rope, let him have his ⟨p. 350⟩will; Ephraim is joined to-Idols, let him alone, Hos. 4. 17. He that is unjust let him be unjust still; he that is filthy let him be filthy still. Yea this is that which casts a […] beyond the compass of the compassions of the Almighty, when the Lord […] he will not meddle nor make, he will have nothing to do with such vile creatures, Hos. 4. 14. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they […] adultery, therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. But when God will take pains and trouble himself with such a Rebel, hath thee upon the anvil, & bestows so much fire and so much melting, yet […] is hope that he may make thee a vessel of grace, and for the Lords use.