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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.
He must […] […] eye inward, follow his own […] home […] his own […], and cause his own judgment […] […] upon his own […] and corruptions. This is called in […]. […] […] into a mans […] […] 1 […] […] […], […] If the people of Israel […] […] […], and […] […] […] […] them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they […] them […], […] ⟨p. 76⟩if they shall bethink themselves: the Original thus; if they shall bring it back to their own heart. They had common apprehensions of sins as they saw them committed by others, or as the word revealed them in the evil of their own nature; but they did not look inward to the loathsome vileness of […] evils which lay in their own bosoms, until they came into Captivity. Thus the Prodigal is said to come to himself, Luk. 15. 17. he had lived without any search and consideration of his own ways, lost himself in letting loose his thoughts in the eager pursuit of his own lusts; now he began to take an account of his own course, to see how the case stands with him, in regard of his own corruption and condition in particular. The want of this the Prophet Jeremiah makes to be the principal […] why men rush into the commission of sin, and continue therein; without any […], Jer. 8. 56. Why is this People of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual back-sliding? they hold fast deceit, and refuse to return: they […] themselves with some false imaginations, quiet themselves by some self-deceiving mistakes, and so think they need not, and therefore do not return; the reason is rendered in the next words; I hearkened and heard, and no man repented; and why that? No man said, what have I done? they bring not their own carriages to the scanning, each man will be ready to be Eagle-eyed into other mens occasions; and can easily enquire, and question; and determine, and say, others have done thus, and so, here such have fallen, therein such and such have failed, but no man says, What have I done? and therefore become fearless of what they have done, and careless of what they do: but each man rusheth into his own wretched course as the horse into the battle; because he carries not the light of the Truth into each […] and […] of his conscience, to pry into the secret […] of his own spirit, and judg aright of that, else be his knowledge never so large, he will get little good by it.
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