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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.
Hence, Our conversion depends not upon, nor issues not from the congruity of all such means, or the […] suitableness of all such Circumstances wch may help forward those forcible persuasions which the Lord doth present to the Soul, and whereby he would so call the soul of a sinner to himself, as that his call may certainly find success. I conceive it meet to ad this Collection to the former, partly because this is the proper place to which it ought to be referred, and where it should be disputed, and from the former Doctrine receives its Doom, and Confutation.
Hence, Our conversion depends not upon, nor issues not from the congruity of al such means, or the 〈…〉 suitableness of al such Circumstances wch may help forward those forcible perswasions which the Lord doth present to the Soul, and whereby he would so call the soul of a sinner to himself, as that his call may certainly find success. I conceive it meet to ad this Collection to the former, partly because this is the proper place to which it ought to be referred, and where it should be disputed, and from the former Doctrine receives its Doom, and Confutation.
The Brain of the Jesuits is the Womb that bare it, and their Forgery gave it its first being; a Brat of their Brain, a Conceit which they Forged and Anvilled out of the Froth of their own imaginations: For when they saw that it was a Conclusion absurd and unreasonable, yea, that which sounded harshly even to Common Sense to affirm, […] a mans Conversion was Lastly resolved into the Liberty of a mans own Will; which advanceth mans free Will above Gods Free Grace, and makes the Will of ⟨p. 416⟩man a superior and more principal Cause of our effectual Calling, than the work of Gods Spirit and Grace.
The Brain of the Jesuites is the Womb that bare it, and their Forgery gave it its first being; a Brat of their Brain, a Conceit which they Forged and Anvilled out of the Froth of their own imaginations: For when they saw that it was a Conclusion absurd and unreasonable, yea, that which sounded harshly even to Common Sense to affirm, a mans Conversion was Lastly resolved into the Liberty of a mans own Will; which advanceth mans free Will above Gods Free Grace, and makes the Will of