The application of redemption

They fear no evil for the time to come: senseless §3before, fearless now: they feel no evil for the present, and they fear none for the future; they ⟨p. 289⟩reason from sense and experience, it hath not been, therefore it will not be. Thus those made a League with Hell and Death, Isa. 28. 15. They entrenched and fortified themselves in this fearless presumption against the approach of any future evil. And therefore in all the threatenings they read and hear, though such as express the direful displeasure of the Lord, yet they take off the edge of all, they imagine its nothing but a kind of policy in men who Preach these threatenings, that so they might awe others by a prudent way of proceeding, and partly its folly in those who believe them and entertain them as real, when there is no such thing to be feared. This was the Conclusion of those who sate upon the Lees and Dregs of this Security, Zeph. 1. 12. They profess, the Lord will neither do good, nor evil.

They fear no evil for the time to come: senseless §3before, fearless now: they feel no evil for the present, and they fear none for the future; they ⟨p. 289⟩reason from sense and experience, it hath not been, therefore it will not be. Thus those made a League with Hell and Death, Isa. 28. 15. They intrenched and fortified themselves in this fearless presumption against the approach of any future evil. And therfore in all the threatnings they reade and hear, though such as express the direful displeasure of the Lord, yet they take off the edge of all, they imagine its nothing but a kind of policy in men who Preach these threatnings, that so they might aw others by a prudent way of proceeding, and partly its folly in those who beleive them and entertain them as real, when there is no such thing to be feared. This was the Conclusion of those who sate upon the Lees and Dregs of this Security,