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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 9: The Ninth Book.
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.
Be it granted that the soul finds sin as a plague, and therefore would be preserved from the evil of it: the second impediment which wholly keeps out Faith is this, When the sinner expects supply and […] from its own sufficiency, either outward excellencies, abilities of Nature, or common Graces, or the beauty of some performances which issue from any of these: For this is Natural to all men ever since Innocency, That since the staff was put into his own hand, and then needed not, nay should not deny their own strength, […] to this day this practice of old Adam remain still in all his posterity, they will scramble for their own Comforts and try the utmost of their own strength, to help themselves ⟨p. 10⟩rather than be […] to another to help them: Hence in cases of Conscience and trouble, men are so ready to resolve, so apt and free to promise and profess amendment, what they will do, and others shall see it as well as […] […] it, and so alas it comes to nothing in […] […], either they fall back unto their base courses, when horror and fear is over, or else wasting […] into a […] formality, and so perish in their Hypocrisy. This is an apparent bar to faith, which is the going out of the soul to fetch all life and power from […]. Now wholly to be in our selves, and to stay upon our own ability, and yet to go out of himself […] […], and receive all from his sufficiency, are things which […] stand together, I came not to call the […], […]. 9. 13. While they sought to establish […] own […], they did not submit to the Righteousness of God.
Be it granted that the soul finds sin as a plague, and therefore would be preserved from the evil of it: the second impediment which wholly keeps out Faith is this, When the sinner expects supply and 〈…〉 from its own sufficiency, either outward excellencies, abilities of Nature, or common Graces, or the beauty of some performances which issue from any of these: For this is Natural to all men ever since Innocency, That since the staff was put into his own hand, and then needed not, nay should not deny their own strength, 〈…〉 to this day this practice of old Adam remain still in all his posterity, they will scramble for their own Comforts and try the utmost of their own strength, to help themselves ⟨p. 10⟩