The application of redemption

As they see none; so while the Lord is pleased to §2abate them, the expressions of his heavy displeasure, nor yet proceeds to take them to task for their great and grievous offences, they feel no evil: they see other men as vile as themselves, fare like themselves, and therefore they conclude there is no danger, Psal. 73. 7. Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart can wish, they are not in bonds like other men, and therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain, &c. Upon this ground it is, the false-hearted resolve to join sides with the proud, because they saw their proceedings prosperous, We count the proud happy, say they, Mal. 3. 15. For Naturally, further than the Lord is pleased to grapple with the sinner) there is a benumbed kind of stupidness of spirit takes possession of them, they become senseless wholly or their sins, and so of the plagues that are threatened, and treasured up for them against the day of wrath; When the disease hath mastered Nature so that it hath lost its lively strength, when it's now dying it feels not death because sense was gone before. The Soul that is slain by sin it becomes senseless of it. As it […] the drunkard, Prov. 23. 35. They have stricken me, and I was not sick, they have beaten me, and I felt it not.

As they see none; so while the Lord is pleased to §2abate them, the expressions of his heavy displeasure, nor yet proceeds to take them to task for their great and grievous offences, they feel no evil: they see other men as vile as themselves, fare like themselves, and therefore they conclude there is no danger, Psal. 73. 7. Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart can wish, they are not in bonds like other men, and therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain, &c. Upon this ground it is, the fals-hearted resolve to joyn sides with the proud, because they saw their proceedings prosperous, We count the proud happy, say they, Mal. 3. 15