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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.
True, It may be there hath […] some blows upon1 thine heart, Conscience it hath […] thee, the […] of the Word, it hath laid […] […], but it […] not broken thy heart to this day; […] that is thus […] (to go no further now than the very expression of the Text.)
True, It may be there hath 〈…〉 some blows upon1 thine heart, Conscience it hath 〈…〉 thee, the 〈…〉 of the Word, it hath laid 〈…〉 〈…〉, but it 〈…〉 not broken thy heart to this day; 〈…〉 that is thus 〈…〉 (to go no further now than the very expression of the Text.)
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If thy soul be beaten to […] with this oppression of thy distempers (for so this brokenness of heart was opened before) then as it is with the hardest flints, when they are broken to dust, they are easily […], and give way to take the impression of the hand, or whatever is laid upon them: The stone which out of its hardness before, opposed and started aside from the strongest […] […] was laid; now its turned into dust the least and easiest touch leaves a print and impression upon it; so it is expounded, as appears in this opposition, 2 Chron: 30. 8. Be not stiff-necked, but yield your selves. Observe then, is it so? when the power of the Word comes, the Scriptures are pregnant, Arguments […], […] sweet, […] sharp and […], yet […] ⟨p. 13⟩