The application of redemption

The third sort is your LAZY HYPOCRITE Who §3will be abundant in his purposes and professions against his sin, smokes out his days in powerless & […] resolutions, wishings & wouldings but doth nothing to purpose, […] not himself in a restless pursuit against his evil. Hatred where its settled and through it carries all a mans endeavours with it, calls a man into the field, when Hanum ¹saw he was hated of David, he gathers all his forces for offence and defence, and byres besides. War amongst […] requires the whole man, with his time and strength, he that goes to war doth not entangle himself, but leaves all his occasions, that might attend the enemy, he spies privily where his haunts are, what […] he may take, where his hold, are to demolish them, where his provision comes, to intercept […], and to cut of his convoy, levies what forces he may and sends far off for succour and supply. When the Lazy hypocrite makes his complaints against his distempers, and rests in his complaints, bewails his wretchedness and corruptions, but to a resolved war he will […] go. You will do nothing upon point against those lusts, that have done so much evil against Christ and your own soul, Is not the day yet to dawn, the time yet to come, that ever you set your selves in earnest in battle array against your evils Luk. 13. 24. a sleepy kind of seeking that many do which shall never enter into grace, many shall seek to enter and shall not be able, but to strive to ⟨p. 698⟩rise up against your corruptions and to maintain professed war against your sin that you do not that you will not do, how many directions have you heard and yet attend not counsels and […] not, means and ways have been presented and pressed and you improve none² of them? have you ever searched and tried your own ways, that you might see the haunts of your hearts and prevent them? have you observed where the strong holds of sin and satan are, high thoughts and self conceitedness and labour to raze them, where the Provisions ³