A44342:1062
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
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Secondly, We shall show how it follows evidently from the former Doctrine, as that the one cannot be granted, but the other must needs be yielded.
Secondly, We shal shew how it follows evidently from the former Doctrine, as that the one cannot be granted, but the other must needs be yeilded.
For the understanding of the Collection, attend Three Things.
That this Exciting or Preventing Grace of God,§1 it is not any Habit, or gracious Disposition imprinted upon the Soul, whereby it was in power or possibility to act or not to act, as it seems good and suits best with its own purpose. For Example sake, In those Actions wherein men are Causes by Counsel, they have […] and power to put forth such an action, or with-hold the doing of it as they see fit. A man hath a power to go hither or thither, to speak these or those words, yet he may sit still, and stop his motion, he may be mute, and silence his words. But as we heard before, It is the motion or actual impression of the work of the Spirit, so that God is not purposing and decreeing within himself, but putting his purpose into a powerful Execution, and so comes under such words to be deciphered, as Drawing, Teaching, Turning; all which show an actual Expression of Gods power and pleasure.
That this Exciting or Preventing Grace of God,§1 it is not any Habit, or gracious Disposition imprinted upon the Soul, wherby it was in power or possibility to act or not to act, as it seems good and suits best with its own purpose. For Example sake, In those Actions wherein men are Causes by Counsel, they have and power to put forth such an action, or with-hold the doing of it as they see fit. A man hath a power to go hither or thither, to speak these or those words, yet he may sit still, and stop his motion, he may be mute, and silence his words. But as we heard before, It is the motion or actual impression of the work of the Spirit, so that God is not purposing and decreeing within himself, but putting his purpose into a powerful Execution, and so comes under such words to be deciphered, as Drawing, Teaching, Turning; al which shew an actual Expression of Gods power and pleasure.