The application of redemption

Thou that never sawest thy […] for a Christ, art not yet in a way to be […]; thou who never faults the ways which might stop the passage of Christ, thou art never like to mend them upon these terms. This was Laodicea's temper, […]. […]. 16. Thou sayest thou art rich and wise, and wants nothing, and knowest not that thou art poor, and naked, and miserable, and indeed hast nothing; nay, thou art cut out for confusion, fitted and prepared on purpose for an everlasting rejection, Isay, 6. 10. Mark how, when the Lord will prepare a people for utter desolation, and shut them out from sharing in mercy, he sends the Prophet with Commission, Go (saith he) make the ears of this People heavy, their eyes dim, and their hearts fat, that seeing they may see and not understand, hearing they may hear and not perceive, lest they be converted, and I should heal them: as if he should have said, if they never see, if they never be made […] of their sins and selves, they will never be converted, and so never saved: 2 Cor. 4. 3. If our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that perish: There is not a thought that the King will come on progress when there is no Harbinger to make preparation before.

Thou that never sawest thy 〈…〉 for a Christ, art not yet in a way to be 〈…〉; thou who never faults the waies which might stop the passage of Christ, thou art never like to mend them upon these terms. This was Laodiceas temper, 〈…〉. 〈…〉. 16. Thou sayest thou art rich and wise, and wants nothing, and knowest not that thou art poor, and naked, and miserable, and indeed hast nothing; nay, thou art cut out for confusion, fited and prepared on purpose for an everlasting rejection, Isay, 6. 10. Mark how, when the Lord will prepare a people for utter desolation, and shut them out from sharing in mercy, he sends the Prophet with Commission, Go (saith he) make the ears of this People heavy, their eyes dim, and their hearts fat, that seeing they may see and not understand, hearing they may hear and not perceive, lest they be converted, and I should heal them: as if he should have said, if they never see, if they never be made 〈…〉 of their sins and selves, they will never be converted, and so never saved: