The application of redemption

Do not fear the terror of the Truth, so […] to step aside from under it, and withdraw thy self from the […] of ⟨p. 451⟩it, but think of the goodness of it; as a man, though he fear the bitterness of the Pill, yet knowing it's a means of his health, he is willing to take it: So here. When God moves, move thou; when he stirs, stir thou; many a man neglects […] stirrings of the Spirit of God, and never hath the like again, and then on his death bed cries for his old terrors. Oh therefore when the Truth meets you and stirs you, keep […] heart under it, and follow the blow in secret, and bless God that hath opened thine eye, and […] thine heart in any measure, and let thy heart lie still under the stroke of the Truth: the want of this is the reason why many a soul is so long under the workings of Contrition, and never grows to any settlement, because […] keep not their hearts under the power of the Truth, which would throughly break the heart for sin, 2 Kings, 13. 19. The Prophet bids the King smite, and he smote thrice and ceased, whereupon the man of God was wroth, saying, thou shouldst have smitten five or six times; then bad'st thou smitten the Syrians till thou hadst consumed them. So when God hath been grappling with thy heart, and would have plucked thee out of the paw of the Lyon; thou hast prayed once, or twice, or thrice, it may be; and then after a while, thy care, and diligence, and endeavours are over; thou shouldst have prayed six times, thou shouldst give God no rest, nor thy own soul any rest, thou shouldst never cease striking until thou hast destroyed those corruptions of thine.

Do not fear the terror of the Truth, so 〈…〉 to step aside from under it, and withdraw thy self from the 〈…〉 of ⟨p. 451⟩it, but think of the goodness of it; as a man, though he fear the bitterness of the Pill, yet knowing it's a means of his health, he is willing to take it: So here. When God moves, move thou; when he stirs, stir thou; many a man neglects 〈…〉 stirrings of the Spirit of God, and never hath the like again, and then on his death bed cries for his old terrors. Oh therefore when the Truth meets you and stirs you, keep heart under it, and follow the blow in secret, and bless God that hath opened thine eye, and thine heart in any measure, and let thy heart lie stil under the stroak of the Truth: the want of this is the reason why many a soul is so long under the workings of Contrition, and never grows to any settlement, because keep not their hearts under the power of the Truth, which would throughly break the heart for sin,