The application of redemption

Ah but thou sayest; If they had been gross evils it had been something, but they are petty things and therefore need no great care; what need we any more evidence, thine own words will be thine own witness, therefore thou carest only for great sins, fearest only gross and scandalous evils, then thy care and fear is naught, and thy course so, and thy Conscience so, and thy condition also, he that feels all sin as such, he fears all sin, yea the least sin more than the greatest evil, if thou fearest only loathsome and scandalous practices, thy fear is false and thy heart false thy sorrow was never found nor yet thy condition; that I must confess when I […] mens infinite heedlessness, if they did know what God were, or what sin was, what Conscience, what a command, what the reckoning to come were, did not most men live without God in the world they could not live so.

Ah but thou saiest; If they had been gross evills it had been somthing, but they are petty things and therefore need no great care; what need we any more evidence, thine own words wil be thine own wittness, therefore thou carest onely for great sins, fearest onely gross and scandalous evils, then thy care and fear is naught, and thy course so, and thy Conscience so, and thy condition also, he that feels al sin as such, he fears al sin, yea the least sin more than the greatest evil, if thou fearest only loathsom and scandalous practices, thy fear is fals and thy heart fals thy sorrow was never found nor yet thy condition; that I must confess when I 〈…〉 mens infinite heedlesness, if they did know what God were, or what sin was, what Conscience, what a command, what the reckoning to come were, did not most men live without God in the world they could not live so.

The second sort who are hence shut out from having §2any share in this Godly sorrow, or the through impression of the work of the spirit is the treacherous formalist. Formalist I term him because he carries the face of religion, the garb and guise of Godliness in outward appearance and would be counted a friend to the truth, so far as he may serve his own turn of it, and he is content to be at league with the Gospel, provided he may make his own terms, and attain his own ends; namely that he may have allowance in some lusts and yet […] honoured