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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.
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.
To stick in the medium and fall short of the object is feebleness; That is the proper intendment of the Apostle when he lays open the feebleness of the wisdom of the most Eminent heathen Rom. 1. 21. they knew God but did not glorify him as God but became vain in their discourse i. e. they fell short of their end, of God whom they pretended to worship, they missed of him; that was their vanity, and they worshipped the creature in the room of God. And hence the Prophet expresseth the practice of such as those who be wholly misguided in their course by reason of their mistakes Isay. 5. 20. They call evil good and good evil, they put darkness for light and bitter for sweet, and therefore it is they are so easily cozened by Satan and do so easily cousin themselves; And upon this ground it is, though they in Acts. 17. 23. worshipped an unknown God and Paul would have taught them the true God whom they ignorantly worshipped, they would follow their own fancies and worship Gods of their own making; but the true God blessed for ever they might have heard of him and been instructed concerning him, his being and ⟨p. 46⟩Worship; they would not own nor entertain the Apostles Counsel in that behalf, nay, verse 32. they mocked him when he spake to them of […] things.
To stick in the medium and fall short of the object is feebleness; That is the proper intendment of the Apostle when he layes open the seebleness of the wisdom of the most Eminent heathen Rom. 1. 21. they knew God but did not glorify him as God but became vayn in their discourse i. e. they fell short of their end, of God whom they pretended to worship, they missed of him; that was their vanitie, and they worshipped the creature in the room of God. And hence the Prophet expresseth the practice of such as those who be wholly misguided in their course by reason of their mistakes Isay. 5. 20. They call evil good and good evil, they put darkness for light and bitter for sweet, and therfore it is they are so easily cousened by Satan and do so easily cousen themselves; And upon this ground it is, though they in