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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
The Application of Redemption, by the effectual work of the Word an… › Book 8
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.
If the Will of it self hath not the next Passive power1 to receive Grace and Christ, then it is not in its Liberty to choose or refuse: But it hath not the next Passive power, Rom. 8. 7. It is not subject to the law of God; nay, it cannot be subject to receive the Work, therefore not Choose the Work much less.
If the Will of it self hath not the next Passive power1 to receive Grace and Christ, then it is not in its Liberty to chuse or refuse: But it hath not the next Passive power, Rom. 8. 7. It is not subject to the law of God; nay, it cannot be subject to receive the Work, therefore not Chuse the Work much less.
- 1Argu. 1.
If it be in the Liberty of the Will either to Choose §2or Refuse, and that our Conversion is lastly resolved into that; then it is in a mans own proper power and freedom to make himself to […] from another: which the Apostle peremptorily and professedly denies, 2 Cor. 4. 7. Who makes thee to differ? And What hast thou that thou hast not received? Why the Arminians will say, It was my own Will that made me to differ, the Liberty of my own Choice, ⟨p. 414⟩because I used and improved my freedom well, which another did not.