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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.
On the […] he […] off from holy services by showing nothing but the […] of the evil that attend them, that so the soul attends not the good of the duty that follows it. Thus he prevailed with Peter he laid before him the fearfulness of the danger now eminent & such as in […] might draw on death, and his thoughts were so taken up with attendance to that, that he had no leisure to consider the loathsomeness of his Lying, Cursing, Blasphemy and unfaithfulness in denying his Master until at last Christ looked, and he remembered and he went out and wept bitterly, 'Math. 26. Last. so they looked upon the stature of the Giants, the height of their walled Cities, and their Iron Chariots ⟨p. 70⟩and therefore did not expel them, and so they became thorns in their eyes and pricks in their sides, Bribes blind the eyes of the wise, because the understanding looks not upon the Cause, but them, and the Cause in them. So the pleasures of sin Bribes the heart and blind the eye.
On the 〈…〉 he 〈…〉 off from holy services by shewing nothing but the 〈…〉 of the evil that attend them, that so the soul attends not the good of the duty that follwes it. Thus he prevayled with Peter he layd before him the fearfulness of the danger now eminent & such as in 〈…〉 might draw on death, and his thoughts were so taken up with attendance to that, that he had no leisure to consider the loathsomeness of his Lying, Cursing, Blasphemy and unfaithfulness in denying his Master untill at last Christ looked, and he remembred and he went out and wept bitterly, 'Math. 26. Last. so they looked upon the stature of the Giants, the height of their walled Cities, and their Iron Chariots ⟨p. 70⟩and therefore did not expel them, and so they became thorns in their eyes and pricks in their sides, Bribes blind the eyes of the wise, because the understanding looks not upon the Cause, but them, and the Cause in them. So the pleasures of sin Bribes the heart and blind the eye.