The application of redemption

Now as long as those fears and the noise of those direful threatenings of the Lord continue in the view of the soul, and as long as it doth not discern its own falseness in this imagined and self-deceiving application, out of self love to self ends, all that while in a blind kind of boldness it may pretend to hang upon Christ and free mercy.

Now as long as those fears and the noyse of those direful threatnings of the Lord continue in the view of the soul, and as long as it doth not discern its own falsness in this imagined and self-deceiving application, out of self love to self ends, all that while in a blind kind of boldness it may pretend to hang upon Christ and free mercy.

But when either the legal stroke ceaseth that he feels not a need of the balsam, or that he fails of his end, and this groundless application (which is nothing else but a presumption,) fails, then all this work falls to the ground, and his hopes and heart fails him and all, he will then say, I applied mercy to my […], but God never did; I catched at a promise and Christ, but God never gave him to me; And this is the cause why thousands […] short when it comes to a dead lift, their conversion, the promises and mercy they have laid hold upon come to nothing, the truth is they took a Christ but God never applied him to them: O Application is a wonderful work!

But when either the legal stroke ceaseth that he feels not a need of the balsom, or that he fails of his end, and this groundles application (which is nothing els but a presumption,) fails, then al this work falls to the ground, and his hopes and heart fails him and all, he will then say, I applyed mercy to my 〈…〉, but God never did; I catcht at a promise and Christ, but God never gave him to me; And this is the cause why thousands 〈…〉 short when it comes to a dead lift, their conversion, the promises and mercy they have laid hold upon come to nothing, the truth is they took a Christ but God never applyed him to them: O Application is a wonderful work!