The application of redemption

This Doctrine is a Bill of Indictment against a world ¹of ungodly men, who live in the Church, who may here read their doom, and the dreadfulness of their own condition discovered beyond all denial; namely, to be such who as yet were never troubled, never so much as touched with a through sight and sense, of their own baseness, and cursed corruptions of their Natures and lives; they are so far from being broken by the Truth, and battered all to powder by the power of an Ordinance, that indeed the day is yet to come that they […] any […] blow, from the […] Word of the Lord […] on upon their Consciences, by the hand and good Spirit of the Almighty, and that is evidenced out of the […] had they received the like impression with these Converts, they would have been […] upon the like practice with them, had their spirits been broken as theirs, they would have been as […] to seek out for succour and relief as […] do; but alas this duty appears not scant in the lives of men, therefore this […] is far enough […] their hearts: If thou hadst been sick as they, thou wouldst have enquired of the Physician as they; but where is the man almost that hath put the Quare to his own Conscience, propounded the Question seriously to others, out of the sense of his own want, for to make narrow search of his own estate, 'Men and Brethren, what shall I do? He never saw need to do any ⟨p. 565⟩thing, nor had heart to do any thing; men therefore had never desire nor endeavour to seek direction; when he hath been loth that men should put him to pains, and press him to diligence, and doing in this behalf. They make it a matter superfluous, and needless trouble thus to be taken up; what needs all this ado? (say they) and therefore they are willing to sit down with ease, but do nothing: they are settled upon their dregs, and endure not stirring, it's a kind of Hell, and like the appearance of Death, to be pressed to diligent inquiry, to make their Calling sure, 2 Pet. 1. 11. The state of the World is somewhat like that which the Angels express upon the proof they had, when they went to survey the frame of things, Zach. […] 11. We have walked to and fro through the Earth, and behold all the Earth sits still, and in at rest. Walk we from one Plantation to another, from one Society to another; nay, which is yet a further misery, from one Assembly to another, all the Earth sits still, and is at rest;