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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.
Attend further these Two Directions.
Present thy self before God in the use of […] §1Means of Grace, and when thou art there […] thy own abilities, either to do good to thy self, or […] receive good from God in all the Means that are appointed for thy good. Say therefore, Lord, it […] not in Man or Means to do any good to my soul, […] ⟨p. 449⟩[…] heart here, and be sure thy soul be rightly […] of it. And mark what Balaam said, Lo, I […] come now, have I now any power at all to say […] thing? Numb. 22. 38. So say thou, Here's a […] mind, a dead heart, a damned soul, I live to […] and hear that, that thousands desired but never […]; but now I am here, Lord, have I any […] to receive any good from any of the Ordinances, […], Lord, the work is thine, do all for thy Servants, […] receive all the Glory from me; you think you […] a large understanding to catch the reason of the […], and a strong memory and can recount what […] hear, and you go for a right Godly man, because […] hear, and repeat, and profess, &c. Thou mayest […] all this be utterly destitute of any saving work […] thy soul, thou hast the out-side but thou canst […] come at the kernel, the sap, the sweet, the good of the Ordinances; therefore say thus; I can hear […] Word blessed be thy name, and I am able to remember, and repeat, and to discourse of the things of God, but Oh! the power of God to work upon my […] that I want, here's a blind mind, and a dead […], a lame heart; Lord work upon it, and draw […] to thy self and that effectually: It was […] speech, 2 Chron. Chap. 20. Vers. 12. when […] had Mustered up all the Forces of ISRAEL, Yet, says he, We have no strength, nor do […] know what to do, but our eyes are unto […]. So shouldest thou say, for thou mayest have […] strength, and moral strength, but spiritual […] to hear profitably, and savingly, and to bring […] fruit unto God, this is not in any mans power of himself. Therefore say it, and acknowledge it, Lord, though I do what I can, yet I have no strength, […] do I know what to do, but mine eyes are unto […].