The application of redemption

his companion that would ruffle it out in mirth & jollity, is become so pensive under the pressure of his Conscience, that there is no society in him; they look at them as lost and undone persons, the Preacher hath spoiled them, they are fit for nothing. And so also some poor ignorant people whose ways were civil and moral, and never acquainted with Gods manner of dealing in such cases; when they see their friends, and children, and kindred, sinking under the sense of their sin, and Gods displeasure, their hearts taken up wholly with attendance to their own Spiritual necessities, and taken off from all other occasions; they look at it as a kind of madness and distraction, and they fear they will not come to themselves again, when in Truth they never came to themselves before now, nor in truth considered where they were, or what they did: whereas this broken-heartedness doth not impair any mans abilities, but turns them the right way, and improves them for the Lords advantage; it makes men unhandy to sin, but fit for the Service of the Almighty; only it is a spiritual sickness, and you must in reason wait till the extremity be over, before the party can be free for any work but this, because he finds this most needful: He that takes Physic retires into his Chamber, but it is not to hinder his employment, but further it for future time; the Child when he sees the Grapes a pressing, he falls a crying; and fondly conceives his Father spoils them, to bring […] out of them: The unexperienced stander by imagines that the pieces of Gold that are put into the refining pot, and that into the fire, will utterly be spoiled, until he sees a Vessel of Gold framed ⟨p. 446⟩out of them, glorious for show and Service, he then changeth his mind. So here; when thou […] the Lord putting men into the furnace of his fierce wrath, scorching their Consciences, know, the Lord hath them now in the […], and intends to make them Vessels of Grace and Mercy, who before were Vessels of Dishonour, fit for nothing but to serve sin and Satan, help thou […] the work, and […] in it; and as Paul in a like case wished, That not only they, but all; thy friends, and¹ children, and kindred, […] not almost, but altogether such as they are, broken-hearted sinners.

his companion that would ruffle it out in mirth & jollity, is becom so pensive under the pressure of his Conscience, that there is no society in him; they look at them as lost and undone persons, the Preacher hath spoiled them, they are fit for nothing. And so also some poor ignorant people whose waies were civil and moral, and never acquainted with Gods manner of dealing in such cases; when they see their friends, and children, and kindred, sinking under the sence of their sin, and Gods displeasure, their hearts taken up wholly with attendance to their own Spiritual necessities, and taken off from all other occasions; they look at it as a kind of madness and distraction, and they fear they will not come to themselves again, when in Truth they never came to themselves before now, nor in truth considered where they were, or what they did: whereas this broken-heartedness doth not impair any mans abilities, but turns them the right way, and improves them for the Lords advantage; it makes men unhandy to sin, but fit for the Service of the Almighty; only it is a spiritual sickness, and you must in reason wait til the extreamity be over, before the party can be free for any work but this, because he finds this most needful: He that takes Physick retires into his Chamber, but it is not to hinder his imployment, but further it for future time; the Child when he sees the Grapes a pressing, he fals a crying; and fondly conceives his Father spoils them, to bring out of them: The unexperienced stander by imagines that the pieces of Gold that are put into the refining pot, and that into the fire, will utterly be spoiled, until he sees a Vessel of Gold framed