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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.
Now herein […] the unconceivable heinousness of the hellish nature of sin, it would jostle the Almighty out of the Throne of his Glorious Sovereignty, and indeed be above him. For the will of man being the […] of all his workmanship, all for his body, the body of the soul, the mind to attend upon the will, the will to attend upon God, and to make choice of him, and his will, that is next to him, and he only above that: and that should have been his Throne and Temple or Chair of State; in which he would have Set his Sovereignty for ever. He did in an Especial manner intend to meet with man, and to communicate himself to man in his righteous Law, as the rule of his Holy and righteous will, by which the will of Adam should have been ruled and guided to him, and made happy in him; and all Creatures should have served God in man, and been happy by or through him, serving of God being happy in him; But when the will went from under the government of his rule, by sin, it would be above God, and be happy without him, for the rule of ⟨p. 56⟩the law in each command of it, holds forth a threefold expression of […] from the Lord, and therein the Sovereignty of all the rest of his Attributes.
Now herein 〈…〉 the unconceavable hainousness of the hellish nature of sin, it would justle the Almighty out of the Throne of his Glorious Soveraignty, and indeed be above him. For the will of man being the 〈…〉 of all his workmanship, all for his body, the body of the soul, the mind to attend upon the will, the will to attend upon God, and to make choyce of him, and his wil, that is next to him, and he onely above that: and that should have been his Throne and Temple or Chair of State; in which he would have Set his Soveraignty for ever. He did in an Especial manner intend to meet with man, and to communicate himself to man in his righteous Law, as the rule of his Holy and righteous will, by which the will of Adam should have been ruled and guided to him, and made happie in him; and all Creatures should have served God in man, and been happy by or through him, serving of God being happy in him; But when the will went from under the government of his rule, by sin, it would be above God, and be happy without him, for the rule of ⟨p. 56⟩