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The application of redemption
The application of redemption by the effectual work of the word, and spirit of Christ, for the bringing home of lost sinners to God ... by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IT hath been one of the Glories of the Protestant Religion, that it revived the Doctrine of Saving Conversion, And of the new creature brought forth thereby. Concerning which, and the necessity thereof, we find so much indigitated by Christ and the Apostles (in their Epistles) in those times: But in a more eminent manner, God hath cast the honour hereof upon the Ministers and Preachers of this Nation, who are renowned abroad for their more accurate search into, and discoveries hereof.
IT hath been one of the Glories of the Protestant Religion, that it revived the Doctrine of Saving Conversion, And of the new creature brought forth thereby. Concerning which, and the necessity thereof, we find so much indigitated by Christ and the Apostles (in their Epistles) in those times: But in a more eminent manner, God hath cast the honor hereof upon the Ministers and Preachers of this Nation, who are renowned abroad for their more accurate search into, and discoveries hereof.
First, For the Popish Religion, that much pretend to Piety and Devotion, and doth ⟨image 3⟩dress forth a Religion, to a great outward Gaudiness, and show of […] and will-worship, which (we confess) is intermingled with many spiritual strains of self-denial, Submission to Gods will, Love to God and Christ, especially in the writings of those that are called Mystical […]. But that first great and saving Work of Conversion; which is the foundation of all true piety, the great and numerous volumes of their most devout writers are usually silent therein. Yea they eminently appropriate the word Conversion and thing it self, unto […] man that renounceth a Secular life, and entereth into Religious orders (as they call them) and that Doctrine they have in their discourses of Grace and free will about it, is of no higher elevation, than1 what (as worthy Mr. Perkins long since) may be common to a Reprobate; though we judg not all amongst them. God having continued in the midst of Popish Darkness many to this day, and at this day with more Contention than[…]