The application of redemption

Only a Three-fold Caution is […] to be attended.

Only a Three-fold Caution is 〈…〉 to be attended.

Though the manner of Gods dealing be divers, and §1degrees of this work of Contrition differ in most, […] ⟨p. 360⟩the Nature and substance of the work is really and truly wrought in all that are effectually called out of the world, themselves, and sins to the Lord Jesus; as shall after appear when we come to give in the Evidences of the Point in hand; only now it shall suffice to propound these two places, […]. 3. 1. Behold I will send my Messenger, and he shall prepare the way […] me, and the Lord whom ye […] shall suddenly come into his Temple; and this preparation his Harbinger John Baptist discovers, Luke, 3. 5. Every mountain shall be brought low, and the valleys filled, crooked things made straight, and rough things plain, and then all […] shall see the salvation of the Lord. And the evidence […] this appears in the question they made, What shall we do? &c. It's Gods way of entertainment which himself prescribes, Rev. 3. 2. Behold I stand at thee door and knock; if any man will open the door, I and my Father will come in to him, and sup with him. Unless the door be opened, there is no expectation of Christs coming, and supping: now all men are shut up under unbelief, and so the power of their sins; the opening of the heart, is the loosening of the soul from the league of these lusts, which is done by Contrition; true, a man may pick the lock, or break the lock, open the door and lift up the latch gently, or else unhinge it with violence, and noise, that all the house, and all the town may hear, but it's opened both ways.