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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.
The Second Use is for Consolation, to several sorts of men.
First, Here is ground of incomparable, and inconceivable1 Comfort to support the hearts of […] sinners, from sinking under desperate […], and that irrecoverably. When their Corruptions come in upon them like the mighty Ocean, when innumerable evils compass them about, 2[…] their sins take hold upon them, that they are not […] to look up, they are more than the hairs of their […], and their very hearts fail them: They find the Opposition so strong, and themselves so weak, […] work of deliverance so impossible to their own Sense and Experience, that their Prayers and Endeavours, ⟨p. 436⟩and Hearts […] them: Yet here is a Gale […] Hope, and that which will uphold the Heart, if […] Lord will have in the soul, all Opposition in […] and Earth, shall never hold it.
First, Here is ground of incomparable, and inconceivable1 Comfort to support the hearts of 〈…〉 sinners, from sinking under desperate 〈…〉, and that irrecoverably. When their Corruptions come in upon them like the mighty Ocean, when innumerable evils compass them about, 2〈…〉 their sins take hold upon them, that they are not 〈…〉 to look up, they are more than the hairs of their 〈…〉, and their very hearts fail them: They find the Opposition so strong, and themselves so weak, work of deliverance so impossible to their own Sense and Experience, that their Prayers and Endeavors,