The application of redemption

Of Consolation. Here's also a Cordial to keep¹ up the fainting hearts of decrepit and aged sinners, whose noisome lusts plead prescription of continuance as though they were beyond the Authority of any Law to cast them out: I confess it indeed (Oh that ancient men would consider it) the case is very desperate, and brought to the last cast; Is it not a marvellous strait, that the great work of Everlasting Life lies upon the moment of an hour (as it ⟨p. 275⟩[…]) to follow the words of the Parable, […] considering it is not usual for men then to be […] The little twig such may take hold on, is this, hath been done, and therefore there is hope it may done again, and this hope it is which keeps the […] above water; never too late to forsake our […], the Lord accepts at the Eleventh hour: […] must not then suffer our own fears, or Satan's […] to pluck up our resolutions and […] by the roots, with any false shows of hopeless possibilities. When a decrepit sinner hath tired […] in his ungodly courses, grows weary with […] burden, of an accusing conscience, and […] of an ill led life, and begins to bethink himself, is not in a right way; suddenly the Enemy […] to his view the number and nature of his many […], and withal suggests the way so long, […] the time to return so short; better not set out, […] not to be able to get home. In vain now says […] to begin so great a work of Preparation, when […] have so little opportunity, and so great an […] thereunto. To what purpose is it to strive […] we cannot overcome? to enter upon the […] when in all likely hood we shall be benighted (see […] Sun is but an hour high) and never come to the […] of it?

Of Consolation. Here's also a Cordial to keep¹ up the fainting hearts of decrepit and aged sinners, whose noysom lusts plead prescription of continuance as though they were beyond the Authority of any Law to cast them out: I confess it indeed (Oh that ancient men would consider it) the case is very desperate, and brought to the last cast; Is it not a marvelous streight, that the great work of Everlasting Life lies upon the moment of an hour (as it ⟨p. 275⟩