The application of redemption

A Natural […] before the Lord come to seize upon §1him, he sees no danger in his estate, and therefore will not suffer himself to be persuaded to any such […], what can be said to evict it by the most […] Arguments to win his assent thereunto; so it was with them in the old world. Mat. 24. 38. they […] and gave in marriage, they did eat and drink, and took up themselves in the eager pursuit […] these present pleasing contentments, which […] with our Natural hearts, but knew nothing either of the […] of their own sins, or the heaviness of the plagues decreed and threatened: Hence this Security is in Scripture compared to a dead sleep, Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life, Eph. 5. 14. In a sleep, we know if it fall heavy upon any, he sees no dangers nor enemies though he was in the midst ⟨p. 288⟩of them; if any evil be plotted or practised against him he perceives it not, and therefore it is said, They that sleep, they sleep in the night: So it is here, though the sinner be compassed about with his own sins, and the judgments of God ready to be inflicted on him, and the Devils of Hell ready to devour him, yet being in a dead sleep he discerns not the danger he is in.

A Natural 〈…〉 before the Lord come to seize upon §1him, he sees no danger in his estate, and therefore will not suffer himself to be perswaded to any such 〈…〉, what can be said to evict it by the most 〈…〉 Arguments to win his assent thereunto; so it was with them in the old world. Mat. 24. 38. they 〈…〉 and gave in marriage, they did eat and drink, and took up themselves in the eager pursuit 〈…〉 these present pleasing contentments, which 〈…〉 with our Natural hearts, but knew nothing either of the of their own sins, or the heaviness of the plagues decreed and threatned: Hence this Security is in Scripture compared to a dead sleep, Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life,