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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.
Thou art every day ripening for […], and reserved §4in the chains of darkness till the judgment of the great […] and therefore thy condition is like that of the Devil himself, thou hast only the liberty of thy chain, that is, liberty to increase thy sins and thy plagues. when the Lord would prepare a people for destruction he saves. […] a. 6. 10. he seals them up under the curse of a […] mind and a hard heart. Hear ye indeed but understand not, and see ye indeed but perceive: not; […] the heart of this people fat, and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart and convert and be healed.
Thou art every day ripening for 〈…〉, and reserved §4in the chayns of darkness til the judgment of the great 〈…〉 and therefore thy condition is like that of the Devil himself, thou hast only the liberty of thy chain, that is, liberty to encrease thy sins and thy plagues. when the Lord would prepare a people for destruction he saves. 〈…〉 a. 6. 10. he seals them up under the curse of a 〈…〉 mind and a hard heart. Hear ye indeed but understand not, and see yee indeed but perceiv: not; 〈…〉 the heart of this people fat, and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart and convert and be healed.
[…] Instruction, why men of the greatest ability for 1depth of brain and strength of understanding are most hardly brought to brokenness of heart and to be wounded with Godly sorrow for their sins; the ground is from the point in hand, because they are hardest brought to see their sins; the power of carnal reason doth so mightily prevail in them being now in their natural condition, the strength of their abilities becomes wholly perverted to their own hurt, and the maintaining of their own distempers, their subtlety deceives themselves & they abuse the sharpness of their wit to beat back the authority of the […] and to wind away from the evidence of argument that is […] to their view. They shut out the light of the truth from coming into their hearts. and therefore its not […] it should work upon them […] or effectually prevail with them for God. Hence that peremptory […] of the Apostle not many wise men after the flesh 1. […]. 1. 26. because the wisdom of the […] is enmity against God.