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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.
It's the Cause which brings all other evils of punishment §3into the World, and without this they are not evil, but so far as sin is in them. The sting of a trouble, the poison and malignity of a punishment and affliction, the evil of the evil of any judgment, it is the sin that brings it, or attends it, Jer. 2. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy back slidings shall reprove thee, know therefore that it is an evil, and bitter thing that […] hast forsaken the Lord. Jer. 4. 18. Thy ways and doings have procured these things unto thee, […] it is bitter, and reacheth unto the heart. Take miseries and crosses without sin, they are like to be without a sting, the Serpent without poison, ye may take them, and make Medicines of them. So Paul 1 Cor. 15. 55. he plays with death it self, sports with the […]. Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh Grave where is thy Victory? the sting of death is sin. All the harmful annoyance in sorrows and punishments, further than either they come from sin, or else tend to it, they are rather improvements of what we have than parting with any thing we do enjoy, we rather lay out our conveniences than seem to lose them, yea, they increase our. Crown, and do not diminish our Comfort. Blessed […] ye when men revile you, and persecute you, and speak all manner of evil of you for my sake, for great is your reward in Heaven: Matth. 5. 11. There is a blessing in persecutions and reproaches when they be not mingled with the deserts of our sins; yea, our momentary short affliction for a good cause, and a good Conscience, works an excessive exceeding weight of Glory. If then sin brings all evils, and makes all evils indeed to us, then is it worse than all those evils.
It's the Cause which brings all other evils of punishment §3into the World, and without this they are not evil, but so far as sin is in them. The sting of a trouble, the poyson and malignity of a punishment and affliction, the evil of the evil of any judgment, it is the sin that brings it, or attends it,