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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.
Strive mightily to […] a […] sight of God himself, as he is pleased to dispense himself in his Holiness and Goodness to the soul to be enjoyed as […] all-sufficient ⟨p. 74⟩good, beyond all created Excellencies in the Creature. It was the advice of our Saviour, Rev. 3. 18. I counsel thee to buy of me eye-Salve that thou mayest anoint thine Eyes, that so thou mayest see. For darkness is not seen but only by the help of light, Crookedness by the Rule of Straightness, He that knows not the Rule of true Latin will never be able to know what is false, and and so it is in any Art, he that knows not the Rule of building, planting, he will never discover an error in either. The like we may say and conceive touching the discovery of sin, because it is a swerving from the righteous and holy will of God in his government & communication of himself to the Creature, it is a professed justling with that, and his wisdom and goodness therein. unless […] Eyes be anointed with Eye Salve to see him and the purity and spiritualness of his pleasure, as that which only should rule us, and only can satisfy us. We shall never see […] in its own nakedness and Nature. And hence it is, when the wicked in the trouble and terror of their Consciences feel the fierceness of the fury of the Almighty […] upon their Souls, they know now the smart of sin, and God also as a […] Judg, whose anger they can neither avoid nor bear: This is only a Consequent and a fruit of sin, and comes after it. But to see a right the Sovereign […] of his Wisdom to guide them, and the all-sufficiency of his Goodness far exceeding all created excellencies, and their […] as a going from both these, if they be misguided in the one, they cannot but mistake the other. Job, 42. 4. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye sees thee, therefore, I […] my self, when […] saw God clearly, he saw his […]: So the Convert in 1 Cor. 14. 24. When he had the thoughts of his heart […] ed and made manifest, […] […] God is in you of a truth, because he neither saw God […] himself before, and when he sees the one, he sees […], 1. John 3. 7. He that […] sin, hath neither seen