The application of redemption

And therefore this gives in heavy Evidence against sundry sorts of men, as such who as yet never came into the suburbs of Salvation, never made entrance or preparation towards the enjoyment of Christ, and therefore are far from ever coming to the participation or […] of him.

And therefore this gives in heavie Evidence against sundry sorts of men, as such who as yet never came into the suburbs of Salvation, never made entrance or preparation towards the enjoyment of Christ, and therefore are far from ever coming to the participation or 〈…〉 of him.

The first are those which slight this work as a §1matter merely superfluous; they look at it as an invention of some discouraged, and drooping melancholy persons, a course which out of dark and misguided […] have contrived, but was never required by the Almighty. These are of two sorts.

The first are those which slight this work as a §1matter meerly superfluous; they look at it as an invention of some discouraged, and drooping melancholly persons, a course which out of dark and misguided 〈…〉 have contrived, but was never required by the Almighty. These are of two sorts.

1 Such as they who are in a dead sleep of senseless […] conclude their condition good, because they never knew what a good condition meant, and therefore conceive they need not be troubled, they should not be altered from it. They observe no Mountains, discern no crooked paths nor see their own sins nor the danger of their own condition, and therefore fondly conceive they need be no better they should be no other: and if men could be as well contented with them as they are with themselves, they see no reason but that they might sit down in quiet, without trouble and distraction, and yet I will to Heaven also.