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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
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.
And for the Arminian Doctrine, how low doth that run in this great Article? this we may without breach of Charity say of it; That if they or their followers have no further or deeper work upon their hearts, than what their Doctrine in that point calls for; they would fall short of Heaven: though those other great truths they together therewith teach, God may and doth savingly bless unto true Conversion, he breaking through those Errors into some of their hearts.
And for the Arminian Doctrine, how low doth that run in this great Article? this we may without breach of Charity say of it; That if they or their followers have no further or deeper work upon their hearts, than what their Doctrine in that point calls for; they would fal short of Heaven: though those other great truths they together therewith teach, God may and doth savingly bless unto true Conversion, he breaking through those Errors into some of their hearts.
And how much our reformed Writers abroad, living in continual wranglings and Disputes with the Adversaries of Grace, have omitted in a Practical and Experimental way, to lay open and anatomize the inwards of this great work, for the Comfort and settlement, of poor souls, many of themselves do greatly bewail: And to find them work, and divert them from this, it hath been the ⟨image 249⟩Devils great Policy (who is at the head of all those Controversies) as also ever since Pelagius time, to this very day) to make that dry and barren plot of Ground (namely the naked dispute of the freedom of mans will) to be the great seat of this War (as the Pope did the Conquest of the Holy Land, in the darker times, to find all Christian Princes work) and thither to draw all the forces and intentions of mens minds jejunely & in a great part Philosophically to debate what power mans will (for-sooth) hath in the Summity and Apex of Conversion to resist or to accept the Grace of God: and so whether Moral persuasions only be not Sufficient? or that Physical Pre-determinations be not also requisite to Conversion? whilst in the mean time, all those intimate actings of a soul in turning to God; The secret particular passages, both on Gods part, and on the souls part (which are many and various) by which the soul is won over unto God and Christ; those treaties the souls of