The application of redemption

gainsaid I not, yea, rejected thy compassions so often tendered in the Ministry of the Word, and forced upon me by those heart-breaking Exhortations of thy faithful Ministers, to reveal these Spiritual good things, when out of negligence I did not know them, yea, then to press them upon my Conscience, and by the effectual work of thy Spirit then to prevail with my heart, when at first I did oppose and cast them behind my back; let me for ever return all praise to thy Majesty, out of whose free mercy it is that I have been made partaker of any saving work for the good of my Soul: Yea, I thank thee Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that thou hast revealed these things to babes and sucklings, and bid them from the wise and prudent: That the Learned of the world are befooled, and thou hast taught me, a poor ignorant silly wretch; That many noble and honourable are cashiered, and thou hast accepted of a base worm, plucked me out of a smoky Cottage, out of a Corner of Hell, to receive me into the Kingdom of thy Christ, to bear me in thy own bosom, here wildering up and down in this valley of tears, that thou mayest glorify me with thy self when all tears shall be wiped away from mine eyes: Oh! it is thy Free, thy Free Mercy, let my Soul for ever bless thee, and walk worthy of thee and it, that I may serve thee with a good, and a glad, and a free heart, as I have received freely from thine own Hand, whatsoever either I have, or Hope for.

gainsaid I not, yea, rejected thy compassions so often tendered in the Ministery of the Word, and forced upon me by those heart-breaking Exhortations of thy faithful Ministers, to reveal these Spiritual good things, when out of negligence I did not know them, yea, then to press them upon my Conscience, and by the effectual work of thy Spirit then to prevail with my heart, when at first I did oppose and cast them behind my back; let me for ever return all praise to thy Majesty, out of whose free mercy it is that I have been made partaker of any saving work for the good of my Soul: Yea, I thank thee Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that thou hast revealed these things to babes and sucklings, and bid them from the wise and prudent: That the Learned of the world are befooled, and thou hast taught me, a poor ignorant silly wretch; That many noble and honorable are cashiered, and thou hast accepted of a base worm, plucked me out of a smoaky Cottage, out of a Corner of Hell, to receive me into the Kingdom of thy Christ, to bear me in thy own bosom, here wildering up and down in this valley of tears, that thou maiest glorifie me with thy self when all tears shal be wiped away from mine eyes: Oh! it is thy Free, thy Free Mercy, let my Soul for ever bless thee, and walk worthy of thee and it, that I may serve thee with a good, and a glad, and a free heart, as I have received freely from thine own Hand, whatsoever either I have, or Hope for.