The application of redemption

But Secondly, I […] thou dost attain. it, it will §2he very uncomfortable; when thou wilt be like […], that could not taste his meat for age; so you will not be able to taste the sweetness of the Promises ⟨p. 279⟩of Grace and Christ little or nothing. A poor old man comes in, and gets as near the Pulpit as he […], and listens, but he says he cannot hear; he asks […] what was said? they tell him, Oh the great and precious Promises of Grace, and Mercy, and Christ: says he, I did not hear them; where are they? and takes his Book, and then takes his […] and looks; […] child (says he) I cannot see: tell him of them presently after, I cannot remember them. And so you will be unfit for any Service to God, as an old Journey-man that is but a […], so you will bungle at Prayer and Conference, and in all the duties of Obedience; and when God hath showed mercy to you, you will wonder, and think, if I had a thousand lives what could I do again for God: but alas, he can do little, but sit down as a senseless spectacle of Gods everlasting compassions, a wonder to himself, and a warning to others not to defer […] till old Age, it being then so uncomfortable, and he so unfit for it: And therefore […] little ones that are growing up to years of understanding, you have the day before you, if you do not take and improve the first of your time, to repent and turn to God in, God will require it of you, believe it he will: you may read in 2 Kings, 2. 23, 24. of a company of wicked children who mocked the Prophet, and the Lord sent two Bears amongst […] that devoured two and forty of them: they might have said, my Father caught me, or I did not know what I did, or I was but young; but none of all this would serve their turn; they had their time to repent in, but they spent that time in sin and wickedness, and the Lord sent Bears among them to devour them; and so he will deal with you that are careless, impenitent, wicked children, believe it he will, God hath thousands of Devils to torment you ⟨p. 280⟩for ever, if you go on and continue in your Natural condition without Jesus Christ.

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