The application of redemption

2 To this rank of those who slight this way and work of God, are your presumptuous Atheists, when the terrors of the Law are denounced, and the power ⟨p. 172⟩of the Truth in the dispensations thereof is planted on […] to make battery against the strong holds of the […] corruptions of mens hearts and lives that they might […] down before […] Christ and […] up all to him. These wretches defeat the power and stroke of the Truth by their […] conceits; It's true ([…] they) the Lord requires the soul should sue out an everlasting divorce between it self and sin, such emptiness and such underness; It's but a white at which we should aim, not which we can hit; a Copy after which we should write, but though it be scribbled and blurred it will serve the turn; God requires so much, but he will take less: he threatens, and it's wisdom indeed to affright sinners, and in a Spiritual policy (as Fathers do) terrify, but he intends not Execution, it's but to awe men, not to condemn men. Let all […] presumptuous Atheists hear, and fear, and tremble at what the Lord hath said in Deut. 29. 19. He that beareth the words of this Curse, and shall bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart to ad drunkenness to thirst. Such a one is a subject prepared on purpose for the everlasting wrath of God, for the Text says in the next verse, The Lord will not spare that man, but the anger of the Lord will smoke against him, and all the Curses that are written in the Book of God shall be upon him, he shall cut him off, and root him out from amongst the number of his People.

2 To this rank of those who slight this way and work of God, are your presumptuous Atheists, when the terrors of the Law are denounced, and the power ⟨p. 172⟩of the Truth in the dispensations thereof is planted on 〈…〉 to make battery against the strong holds of the 〈…〉 corruptions of mens hearts and lives that they might 〈…〉 down before 〈…〉 Christ and 〈…〉 up all to him. These wretches defeat the power and stroke of the Truth by their conceits; It's true ( they) the Lord requires the soul should sue out an everlasting divorce between it self and sin, such emptiness and such underness; It's but a white at which we should aim, not which we can hit; a Copy after which we should write, but though it be scribled and blurred it will serve the turn; God requires so much, but he will take less: he threatens, and it's wisdom indeed to affright sinners, and in a Spiritual policy (as Fathers do) terrifie, but he intends not Execution, it's but to awe men, not to condemn men. Let all presumptuous Atheists hear, and fear, and tremble at what the Lord hath said in