The application of redemption

For the two first being apprehended in the full breadth of them, the necessity and mysterious depth of Gods Dispensation in the last will appear with greater Evidence, and be more easily conceived, and assented unto with greater readiness.

For the ground of the first Point we have chosen the words of this Text, Rev. 3. 17. where we have the divers, nay, the contrary judgment of the Lord, and the Church of Laodicea touching their spiritual estate and condition; They fate down well apayed in the apprehension, nay the admiration of their own happiness, and professed they had as much as they needed, and were as good as they desired to be: When as the Lord who knew better, and could judg better of their condition, passeth a peremptory sentence to the contrary, that they were wretched, poor, and blind, and naked; they wanted not either wretchedness or misery, but wanted sense of either, and that was the reason they were secure under both.

For the ground of the first Point we have chosen the words of this Text, Rev. 3. 17. where we have the divers, nay, the contrary judgment of the Lord, and the Church of Laodicea touching their spiritual estate and condition; They fate down well apayed in the apprehension, nay the admiration of their own happiness, and professed they had as much as they needed, and were as good as they desired to be: When as the Lord who knew better, and could judg better of their condition, passeth a peremptory sentence to the contrary, that they were wretched, poor, and blind, and naked; they wanted not either wretchedness or misery, but wanted sence of either, and that was the reason they were secure under both.

Here then we see the guise of a graceless heart, of one […] his Natural estate before the Lord set upon the