The application of redemption

of this rank are these, when the stalls of Conscience and the pressures of their spirits constrain them to confess, and seek for ease, their complaints are like Lapwings cries, farthest from their nest or their bosom distempers which lye in the deck, only their acknowledgements are so general and of such evils that more or less belong to all and therefore they conceive they are yet under a safe cover, little shame will fall to their share; Oh they are proud, and dead hearted, and have a deal of self within them; the issue is here, and the English is this, I say I am thus, and who is not so more or less? and so a little shame will come to their allowance and allotment; And if their words which fall from them give a prudent man advantage of further enquiry, and just suspicion to lay his hand upon the loathsome sore, you will see what shuffling, and winding and biting of the lip, will presently appear.

of this rank are these, when the stals of Conscience and the pressures of their spirits constrain them to confess, and seek for ease, their complaints are like Lapwings cryes, farthest from their nest or their bosom distempers which lye in the deck, onely their acknowledgments are so general and of such evils that more or less belong to al and therefore they conceive they are yet under a safe cover, little shame wil fal to their share; Oh they are proud, and dead hearted, and have a deal of self within them; the issue is here, and the English is this, I say I am thus, and who is not so more or less? and so a little shame wil come to their allowance and allotment; And if their words which fal from them give a prudent man advantage of further enquirie, and just suspicion to lay his hand upon the loathsom sore, you wil see what shuffling, and winding and biting of the lip, wil presently appear.

The fourth and last sort are such who when the arrows §4of the Lord have stuck fast in them, and the venom thereof hath drunk up their spirits, when the poison of their sin and pangs of conscience like a strong potion hath made them extremely sick that they are not able to conceal their evils any longer, but the vengeance