The application of redemption

Nay, Let me tell you this, That all may hear and fear, and be awakened; if Christ never awaken thee, he will never give thee light; and if ever he give thee light, he will awaken thee first. Nay, the truth is, So long as thou livest so senseless and careless, know it, Christ never came into the world to do thee any good. Luke 19. 10. The Son of man came to seek, and to save that which is lost: They that are sensible of their lost and undone condition, by reason of their sins against the Lord, they see Hell gaping, God plaguing, and Conscience accusing, being every day ready to drop into Hell, Christ came to save such: But thou that never yet in any measure wast troubled about thy condition, and humbled for thy sins, Christ will never seek thee, nor save thee; nay, he was not sent to seek, or save that miserable soul of thine: God will make thee ⟨p. 299⟩sensible of thy evils before ever thou canst have any hope that he intends good to thee.

I will not now Dispute how far God may awaken a man, and yet not communicate saving grace, that belongs to another place. That I Urge now, is this, That its certain, He that never yet was awakened, or brought out of his carnal Security, never was nor can be made partaker of Jesus Christ.

Exhortation. To all you secure dead hearted¹ sinners, that have been carried on in a Calm all your days: Oh! know it, and consider of it, a man becalmed, is drowned; […] stir up thy self, and think of the time of awakening, it will come; and as Mariners becalmed seek for winds, so should you for the Gales and Breathings of the Spirit of Christ. Many of you have been […] up in good Families, and many of you are civil, honest, quiet people, all things remain with you as they were from the first, until now; you know not what Sin means, nor what Faith and Repentance means in the power and practice of them; you have a quiet life, but a miserable life: Its easy for a Mariner to be in a Calm at Sea, he hath quiet there, but he dies there: Women in Child-birth longs for Throws, if their Throws leaves them, their life leaves them and all; but if they have many and strong Throws, then they hope well: so go your ways and call […] the Throws of Conversation: For a Child to be born into the world, and the Mother asleep, its against Nature, and Reason, and Sense, and Experience and all; so before ever you be born again, before ever Christ be formed in you, it will cost you many Prayers, and Tears, and much Sorrow; but if […] Throws come thick, then there is hope: Oh! therefore call for the sight of sin, and sorrow for sin, for conviction, and humiliation, as you love your Lives and Souls