The application of redemption

it's true and thorough, he will never leave it, until he have ⟨p. 693⟩brought it to perfection and thy soul to eternal happiness but alas this truth as a touchstone shows the contrition of most in the world to be counterfeit, that many have been in the fire heated but never melted, as with metal the parts of it battered, but never severed fully, the dross from the oar, and therefore there can never vessel be be made for any honourable use, and service thereof. In a word, the doctrine passeth sentence of sad condemnation upon four sorts of persons as such who never […] in the work, we shall point very briefly at the particulars, that each man may take his portion.

it's true and thorough, he wil never leave it, until he have ⟨p. 693⟩brought it to perfection and thy soul to eternal happines but alas this truth as a touchstone shewes the contrition of most in the world to be counterfeit, that many have been in the fire heated but never melted, as with mettal the parts of it battered, but never severed fully, the dross from the oar, and therefore there can never vessel be be made for any honorable use, and service thereof. In a word, the doctrine passeth sentence of sad condemnation upon four sorts of persons as such who never 〈…〉 in the work, we shal point very briefly at the particulars, that each man may take his portion.

First the CARELESS and fearless Christian is cast §1out of the number of these contrite sinners whom God doth prepare for his Christ and mercy, such as walk heedlessly up and down the world, not awed with any watchful fear of the temptations and occasions and snares which are laid in their way to entrap them, or with the treachery and deceivable lusts which suddenly draw them aside, to common neglect of duties which they reform not, or transport and carry them with pangs of passions and distempers, and they amend not; certainly either these know not these to be sins, or else do not know them and hate them as direful and dreadful enemies to their souls; It could not be but their hearts should shake at the sight of them, and the dangerous assaults which they cannot but know, if they know them to be […], but they will hazard their everlasting happiness. People who live without watch or fear they have no enemies, or no war […] hand, and if thou livest in this Laish-like fearless fashion, thou never knewest the war of a Christian, nor the enemies they have, nor art in the condition of a Christian, […] hast the heart of a Christian to this hour within thee; And therefore Jude so […] those Atheists and sensual wretches, who were […] of Gods spirit, which are spots in your feasts, feeding themselves without fear.