The application of redemption

1. Such as sleep in a careless and secure Course, never yet saw, at least were not sensible of the plague of Sin, or the sting and punishment that is attending thereupon. 2. Such as have been in the fire, scorched with the fury of the Almighty, which hath drunk up their spirits, but when God hath abated them of the expression of his Displeasure, and allayed the flame, they grow cold and careless; as the Iron that hath been heated with a long and strong Fire, grows more hard when it grows once cold, than ever it was before: They have been gashed, and […] in pieces with the terrors of Conscience; but […] worn out their Terrors, and Fears, they are more seared and senseless than ever.

1. Such as sleep in a careless and secure Course, never yet saw, at least were not sensible of the plague of Sin, or the sting and punishment that is attending thereupon. 2. Such as have been in the fire, scorched with the fury of the Almighty, which hath drunk up their spirits, but when God hath abated them of the expression of his Displeasure, and allayed the flame, they grow cold and careless; as the Iron that hath been heated with a long and strong Fire, grows more hard when it grows once cold, than ever it was before: They have been gashed, and 〈…〉 in pieces with the terrors of Conscience; but 〈…〉 worn out their Terrors, and Fears, they are more seared and senceless than ever.

Such who are drowned in senseless security, have their hearts glutted and surfeited with pleasures, and §1[…] of the flesh and contents of this present world. To sit moping in a corner, sink under the burden of their sins and smoke out their days in a melancholic pressure and pensiveness of spirit, they account it a matter of scorn, a silly kind of sottish behaviour unbeseeming persons of a generous spirit; they wonder what men ail, and conclude its more in mens conceit, than that there is any just cause for such a carriage; for they bless God they never knew what it meant, and they hope they never shall; And hence they fearlessly adventure upon the practice and commission of known evils; and it never stuck in their stomach, nor are they troubled with it, but are delighted in it; that which is a plague to the broken hearted Saints, they are plagued with their pride & froward perverseness of spirit, but its a pastime, a may-game, it's their […] and matter of merriment in their meeting; my […] rebuked me sharply says the Servant, my Mother chid me says the child, but I think I […] them, they would have their way and will, and would have it done after their manner, And I did it with a witness, so il-favouredly, that I know it vexed all the veins of their hearts, that's the way to weary them, and there they solace themselves, ah it's roast meat to them; and thus it is a pastime to a fool