The application of redemption

The secure sinner who is so far from seeking and coveting deliverance that he will not take it when its offered, but is content to be in the prison of his natural condition and to lye in the bolts and […] of his sins still. Of this temper were those Jews in captivity that had so long lived in Babylon they were content to remain there when liberty was proclaimed and the way opened, deliver thy self O Zion thou that dwellest with the daughter of Eabilon Zach. 2. 7. yet they stayed behind in Captivity still, so it is with many a sluggish […], he is content to perish rather then do any thing to deliver himself, he blesseth himself in his misery and so is a devoted slave to the Devil, as Exo. 21. 6. If when the servant had his liberty to go out free, he said plainly I love my Master I will not go out free, then his ear was to be bored with an awl, and he was to be his servant for ever, the boring of his ear did signify his yielding obedience to the Command of another. So when Christ comes to set a man at liberty, offers mercy and grace and pardon, if a man then say, I love my master Pride, perverseness and Idleness, let me have and live in my sins if God say Amen, thou art a bond servant of […] for ever, thou […] a miserable […] creature for ever.

The secure sinner who is so far from seeking and coveting deliverance that he wil not take it when its offered, but is content to be in the prison of his natural condition and to lye in the boults and 〈…〉 of his sins stil. Of this temper were those Jews in captivity that had so long lived in Babilon they were content to remain there when liberry was proclaimed and the way opened, deliver thy self O Zion thou that dwellest with the daughter of Eabilon Zach. 2. 7. yet they stayed behind in Captivity stil, so it is with many a sluggish 〈…〉, he is content to perish rather then do any thing to deliver himself, he blesseth himself in his misery and so is a devoted slave to the Devil, as Exo. 21. 6. If when the servant had his liberty to go out free, he said plainly I love my Master I wil not go out free, then his ear was to be bored with an awl, and he was to be his servant for ever, the boaring of his ear did signify his yielding obedience to the Command of another. So when Christ comes to set a man at liberty, offers mercy and grace and pardon, if a man then say, I love my master Pride, perversness and Idleness, let me have and live in my sins if God say Amen, thou art a bond servant of for ever, thou a miserable creature for ever.