The application of redemption

Men and Brethren, they be words of honour & love, & they spoke them seriously and affectionately, they mocked them before, and they now embrace them, they cared not what terms of reproach they cast upon their persons, they know not now what titles of love and tenderness to put upon them, they now fall at their feet as clients, who flouted them before as enemies, so it was with the jailer Acts, 16. 30. 31. 34. how kindly doth he use Paul and Silas whom […] he handled so currishly, beyond the bounds of reason and humanity, he entertains them in the best room of his house who before thought the worst place in the prison too ⟨p. 454⟩good for them. He baths their wounded parts which he had whipped and stocked before, fears and trembles before them as his counsellors, whom he handled most harshly […] as Prisoners; he feasts them as his guests whom he had struck as Malefactors; the wind was in another door, the man is of another mind yea is another man than he was. God had no sooner opened the heart of Lydia to attend the word but her affections were exceedingly enlarged, towards the dispensers thereof. Acts 16. 15. so that the cords of her loving invitation led Paul and held him captive, he professed she compelled them i. e. by her loving and affectionate expressions, prevailed with them for a stay. And while Paul had the Galatians under the Pangs of the new birth and Christ was now forming in them, they professed they would have plucked out their eyes and have given them to the Apostle, Gal. 4. 15.

Men and Brethren, they be words of honor & love, & they spoke them seriously and affectionately, they mocked them before, and they now embrace them, they cared not what tearms of reproach they cast upon their persons, they know not now what titles of love and tenderness to put upon them, they now fal at their feet as clients, who flouted them before as enemies, so it was with the jaylour Acts, 16. 30. 31. 34. how kindly doth he use Paul and Silas whom 〈…〉 he handled so currishly, beyond the bounds of reason and humanity, he entertains them in the best room of his house who before thought the worst place in the prison too