The application of redemption

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 ⟨p. 286⟩soul: They need nothing in their own apprehension though indeed they have nothing; they see no evil nor danger towards them, though they be compassed and beset on every side with sins and plagues: Men naturally are most secure in their sins, when they are most under the power and plague of them; see how well apaid they sit down in the present frame of their hearts (for it's spiritually meant as appears by the opposition, in the counsel which is administered in the following verse, I counsel thee to buy of […] Eyesalve, that thou mayest see, white Raiment and be zealous and repent) but I say, see how they please themselves in this present condition; if all men were as well contented with them as they are with themselves, they would be no better, and they conceive they should be no other; they neither need, […] should alter their condition, nor yet be disquieted with what it is, it's as good as they would have it. This is the meaning of the Parable, When the strong man keeps the house, all is in peace,