The application of redemption

For how justly may God deny to entertain him, who would not so many years give way and entertainment to his Word and Spirit? What Captain will entertain a Soldier that is not able to fight? What Master will hire a Servant that is not able to work in his Vineyard? Why should the Lord […] wise, choose such weaklings, aged and decrepit, who shall not be able to strike one stroke for him in the defence of his Truth, or set one foot forward in […] ways of his Statutes? As Achish spake of David ⟨p. 278⟩when he came to the […] and feigned himself mad, 1 Sam. 21. 15. What […] I need of mad men, that you have brought this man to me, shall he enter into my house? So the Lord may say, Have I any need of dead men that you have brought these aged […] ruinous carcasses before me? shall they ever find acceptance or entrance into the Kingdom of Grace or Glory? Hath the Lord such need of Services that he must entertain in the worst? hath he such need of Sacrifices that the […] and […] must serve his turn? Let men judg, Go offer now the […] and the […] unto thy […], will be accept it? Mat. 1. 8. will he not loath thy Person and thy […] and can the great and glorious God take pleasure […] either? Yea, […] others were silent, let thy own Conscience […] […] in this case, when these evil days, these dog […] come, thou thy self shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. Canst thou for […] present that to the Lord which thou thy self […]? Nay, not only thy self, but thy […] may seem to be weary of thy service; thy pleasures have taken their leave, the world and the delights thereof […] gone from thee: thy unclean lusts have forsaken thy […] and languishing members, blasphemy is departed from thy speechless tongue, and shall the Lord have the Devils leavings? When thus thou art become a burden to thy self, a trouble to others, and fit for nothing but to be fuel for the fire of Hell, how […] is it to desire it? how hard to conceive it? that the holy, wise, and blessed God will make choice of thee: and therefore it is to be feared thou […] never […] […].

For how justly may God deny to entertain him, who would not so many years give way and entertainment to his Word and Spirit? What Captain will entertain a Soldier that is not able to fight? What Master will hire a Servant that is not able to work in his Vineyard? Why should the Lord wise, chuse such weaklings, aged and decrepit, who shall not be able to strike one stroke for him in the defence of his Truth, or set one foot forward in waies of his Statutes? As Achish spake of David