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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.
the one hath surveyed the compass of his whole course, searched the […] of his own heart, and examined the windings and turnings of his own ways, he hath seen what sin is, and what it hath done, how it hath made havoc of his peace and comfort, ruinated and laid wast the very Principles of Reason and Nature, and Morality, and made […] a terror to himself, when he hath looked over the loathsome abominations that lie in his bosom, that he is afraid to approach the presence of the Lord to bewail his sins, and to crave pardon, lest he should be […] […] them, while he is but confessing of them; afraid and ashamed […] any man living should know but the least part of that which he knows by himself, and could count it happy that […] was not, that the remembrance of those hideous evils of his might be no more; Another happily hears the like preached or repeated, reads them writ or recorded in some Authors, and is able to remember and […] them. The odds is marvellous great. The one sees the History of sin, the other the Nature of it; the one knows the relation of sin as it is mapped […], and recorded; the other the poison, as by experience he hath found and proved it. It's one thing to see a disease in the Book, or in a mans body, another thing to find and feel it in a mans self. There is the report of it, here the malignity and venom of it.
the one hath surveyed the compass of his whol course, searched the 〈…〉 of his own heart, and examined the windings and turnings of his own waies, he hath seen what sin is, and what it hath done, how it hath made havock of his peace and comfort, ruinated and laid wast the very Principles of Reason and Nature, and Morality, and made 〈…〉 a terror to himself, when he hath looked over the loathsom abominations that lie in his bosom, that he is afraid to approach the presence of the Lord to bewail his sins, and to crave pardon, lest he should be 〈…〉 〈…〉 them, while he is but confessing of them; afraid and ashamed 〈…〉 any man living should know but the least part of that which he knows by himself, and could count it happy that 〈…〉 was not, that the remembrance of those hideous evils of his might be no more; Another happily hears the like preached or repeated, reads them writ or recorded in some Authors, and is able to remember and them. The ods is marvelous great. The one sees the History of sin, the other the Nature of it; the one knows the relation of sin as it is mapped , and recorded; the other the poyson, as by experience he hath found and proved it. It's one thing to see a disease in the Book, or in a mans body, another thing to find and feel it in a mans self. There is the report of it, here the malignity and venom of it.