A44342:114
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.
Amongst all the heavenly Truths of the Gospel, which the […] Christ hath Revealed and Commended to His Church, out of his holy Word, there is none more precious, then that wherein the Application of the rich Redemption purchased by him, is […], and made good to the hearts, of those who […] to the Election of his grace; as giving a […] ⟨p. 2⟩to all the rest of the Doctrine taught & learned, […] putting the Soul into possession of all those treasure grace, which were only promised on Gods part, […] hope apprehended by the Sinner before: In a word that which gives life to the fainting heart, in the […] of Gods free grace.
AMongst all the heavenly Truths of the Gospel, which the 〈…〉 Christ hath Revealed and Commended to His Church, out of his holy Word, there is none more precious, then that wherein the Application of the rich Redemption purchased by him, is 〈…〉, and made good to the hearts, of those who 〈…〉 to the Election of his grace; as giving a 〈…〉 ⟨p. 2⟩to all the rest of the Doctrine taught & learned, 〈…〉 putting the Soul into possession of all those treasure grace, which were only promised on Gods part, 〈…〉 hope apprehended by the Sinner before: In a word that which gives life to the fainting heart, in the 〈…〉 of Gods free grace.
For what avails it the hungry to hear of fat […] choice wines, and rare […], and not to know […] come at them? What profits it the condemned […] factor to hear tell of a Pardon, and the Party […] give it, if yet he be ignorant, what way he should […] procure it, for his own deliverance? So here, […] veils it the forlorn Sinner, sitting down under […] tense of Condemnation, and fainting away for […] and forgiveness, to hear of the rich mercy of a […] sufficiency of the merits of a Christ, and the […] demption provided by both; and yet see no way to tain them or the deliverance of his Soul by them? […] knowledge of the mercy adds rather to the […] his misery and distress, to think there is so much […] to be had, and he hath so much need, and yet […] liends no way to get it, no well grounded hope […] tain it.