The application of redemption

As through their in-bred blindness, and unacquaintance¹ with the Ways and Works of Christ, they cannot discern the means of relief; So by reason of their distraction under the pressures of their present extremity, they are wearish to attend, and unwilling to listen and conceive aright, any means that might procure their succour and comfort. As we see in present fears and affrights, ⟨p. 564⟩or extreme or sudden sorrows, we are not our selves, and so become indisposed and […] to conceive of that which is offered plainly to consideration, and which otherwise we were able to judg aright of, and improve it to our present, advantage, Heb. 12. 5. A person fainting under afflictions and troubles, is wholly unable to […] any means to support him. So here, when mens thoughts are hurried with apprehension of evil, which in the most dreadful manner are presented to their view, and their hearts possessed with the feeling of them, they have no leisure to lay out their thoughts and minds to provide for means of help themselves, nor yet to receive them when they are offered by others, Exod. 6. 9. The bitterness of the oppression was so great that they listened to the voice of their misery, but would not hearken to Moses his Counsel.

As through their in-bred blindness, and unacquaintance¹ with the Waies and Works of Christ, they cannot discern the means of relief; So by reason of their distraction under the pressures of their present extremity, they are wearish to attend, and unwilling to listen and conceive aright, any means that might procure their succor and comfort. As we see in present fears and affrights, ⟨p. 564⟩or extream or sudden sorrows, we are not our selves, and so become indisposed and 〈…〉 to conceive of that which is offered plainly to consideration, and which otherwise we were able to judg aright of, and improve it to our present, advantage,