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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.
The […] that ⟨p. 77⟩hath his full charge, if it carry but level, give fire to it, it hits and kills the live mark at which it is shot, but […] hurts the shooter unless it recoil in the full power, then the man that dischargeth it hardly escapes with life. It is so with the understanding that stands charged, that is, fully informed with a clear discovery of the nature of sin, it's able to dart in that light into the minds of others, that may dazzle their eyes, daunt and wound their consciences with the dreadful apprehensions of the […] of their evils, and work their hearts through the blessing of the Lord to a godly remorse for it: but unless their own thoughts recoil back again upon their own miscarriages, and the falseness of their own hearts, they will never be awed, or humbled, or helped against their own sins thereby. Here is then the rule we must arrest our own souls in […]. Achan was never troubled all the while he heard there was an […] thing in the Camp in general, but when the lot had found him, and all Israel had charged the evil upon him, then his heart failed. So we should not content our selves to know and confess that sin is an execrable thing in general, which causes Gods gracious presence to be estranged from […], […] leave not before we see the lot fall upon Achan; […] thou […] attach thine own heart, take it in the very fact, and as men deal with mutinous Traitors, drag thy wretched and rebellious heart before the Tribunal of the Lord, and deal faithfully, and give in […] against it; say, Lord, there be many Traitors and Rebels abroad in the world which dishonour thy Name, grieve thy […], […] thy Kingdom, […] thy Law, lo […] they be; […] […] heart that hath been stubborn and proud, it is my mind that is vain, my affections loose; my life barren and unprofitable; here are those […] […], unclean […], […] desires, no […] […] […] […], […], […] here they be, Lord […] they […].
The 〈…〉 that ⟨p. 77⟩hath his full charge, if it carry but level, give fire to it, it hits and kils the live mark at which it is shot, but 〈…〉 hurts the shooter unless it recoyl in the full power, then the man that dischargeth it hardly escapes with life. It is so with the understanding that stands charged, that is, fully informed with a cleer discovery of the nature of sin, it's able to dart in that light into the minds of others, that may dazle their eyes, daunt and wound their consciences with the dreadful apprehensions of the of their evils, and work their hearts through the blessing of the Lord to a godly remorse for it: but unless their own thoughts recoyl back again upon their own miscarriages, and the falseness of their own hearts, they will never be awed, or humbled, or helped against their own sins thereby. Here is then the rule we must arrest our own souls in . Achan was never troubled all the while he heard there was an thing in the Camp in general, but when the lot had found him, and all Israel had charged the evil upon him, then his heart failed. So we should not content our selves to know and confess that sin is an execrable thing in general, which causes Gods gracious presence to be estranged from , leave not before we see the lot fall upon Achan; thou attach thine own heart, take it in the very fact, and as men deal with mutinous Traitors, drag thy wretched and rebellious heart before the Tribunal of the Lord, and deal faithfully, and give in against it; say, Lord, there be many Traitors and Rebels abroad in the world which dishonor thy Name, grieve thy , thy Kingdom, thy Law, loe they be; heart that hath been stubborn and proud, it is my mind that is vain, my affections loose; my life barren and unprofitable; here are those , unclean , desires, no , , here they be, Lord they .