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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 10: The Tenth Book.
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The Description stands upon two Passages mainly.
I. The Causes which bring in this Contrition. 1. Sight of Sin. 2. Sorrow for Sin. II. The Effects which nextly discover this, and whereby it comes to be known. 1. Detestation of Sin. 2. Sequestration from sin.
And here I desire that still may be remembered which I mentioned and discovered before, That all these are things rather wrought upon us by the impression and motion of the Spirit, than performed by any inward principle, and habitual power of Grace received, and this the manner of the expressions in the words of the description plainly intimates; the soul brought to see his sins, brought to sorrow for them, brought to detest them, and sequester it self from them: For the sinner would not look upon the loathsomeness of his soul, and the filth of his sinful distempers, but the Lord lays it before him, and holds his apprehension to it, follows him with the remembrance of it, and forceth his thoughts to give attendance thereunto. Psal. 51. 3. My sin is ever before me; which way soever he turns his thoughts, his sins stared him in the face, and were full in his view; they dwelt with him, and were daily in his presence, that where ever he was, they were, he could not look off from them, look which way he would.
And here I desire that still may be remembred which I mentioned and discovered before, That all these are things rather wrought upon us by the impression and motion of the Spirit, than performed by any inward principle, and habitual power of Grace received, and this the manner of the expressions in the words of the description plainly intimates; the soul brought to see his sins, brought to forrow for them, brought to detest them, and sequester it self from them: For the sinner would not look upon the loathsomness of his soul, and the filth of his sinful distempers, but the Lord laies it before him, and holds his apprehension to it, follows him with the remembrance of it, and forceth his thoughts to give attendance thereunto.