The application of redemption

Look we again at Corruption: In this Age […] §2Understandings are sooner […], as having not so long continued in the known practice of […]; whenas the aged and decrepit who […] ⟨p. 269⟩[…] the burden of their sins, being settled long and […] upon their […], wedged in their […], and incorporated into sinful customs, their hearts grow hard, their understandings blind, and their affections overcome with the deceitfulness of sin, difficult it is to persuade their Reason, to acknowledge the vileness of their sin, but almost impossible to have their hearts wrought to a detestation of it. Trees withered and rotten, are altogether unfit to be transplanted; nor likely to prosper if they be: So is it with aged men, like these Trees, withered in their wickedness, yea, as Jude speaks, Corrupt Trees twice dead, Jude, 12. First by Original corruption; Secondly by a continued and settled custom in Actual […]; who have taken […] root in their rebellions, they are most unfit to be transplanted and ingrafted into the true Vine Christ Jesus by Conversion and Faith: The Bow that's often […], and stands long one way, is not bowed the other way, but with much violence: The soul (proportionably) which is turned from God, and hath […] bent by long continuance in a base course, though it's possible it may be brought back again and put into a right frame, yet it will cost the setting on before it can be accomplished, and a world of difficulties must be gone through usually before it be done.

Look we again at Corruption: In this Age 〈…〉 §2Understandings are sooner 〈…〉, as having not so long continued in the known practice of 〈…〉; whenas the aged and decrepit who 〈…〉 ⟨p. 269⟩〈…〉 the burden of their sins, being setled long and 〈…〉 upon their 〈…〉, wedged in their , and incorporated into sinful customs, their hearts grow hard, their understandings blind, and their affections overcome with the deceitfulness of sin, difficult it is to perswade their Reason, to acknowledg the vileness of their sin, but almost impossible to have their hearts wrought to a deteftation of it. Trees withered and rotten, are altogether unfit to be transplanted; nor likely to prosper if they be: So is it with aged men, like these Trees, withered in their wickedness, yea, as Jude speaks, Corrupt Trees twice dead,