The application of redemption

In likely hood had never a thought of God, nor of themselves, whether there were a Heaven to be expected, or a Hell to be avoided, but followed their present pleasures; see now how serious and inquisitive they be, they now conclude something must be done, and they would willingly know ⟨p. 562⟩what course they ought to take: when God sets upon mens souls, then they set upon their Service.

In likely hood had never a thought of God, nor of themselves, whether there were a Heaven to be expected, or a Hel to be avoided, but followed their present pleasures; see now how serious and inquisitive they be, they now conclude somthing must be done, and they would willingly know ⟨p. 562⟩what course they ought to take: when God sets upon mens souls, then they set upon their Service.

The Reasons are Two:

Because they now feel the evil they never feared before, ¹now they see the danger and misery hanging over their heads, able to overwhelm them, and sink their hearts, which they never suspected formerly. And therefore now, not only Reason […] them, but their own safety, Nature and […]-love will force them to bestir themselves to the utmost of their strength, and improve all their abilities to the utmost of their power, to prevent such over-bearing evils, and provide for […] own relief and welfare; and so the more to use all diligence here, because they are unknown, and yet spiritual, which concern their eternal estate, and therefore cause most fear, and threaten most hazard, and therefore constrains them to seek […] and near for succour and relief. So it was with the Prodigal when he came to […], before