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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.
[…] to this you disobedient Children and rebellious Servants, who have the Commands of Parents and Masters, Counsels of Servants and Neighbours daily suggested and pressed upon you; listen to this you heedless Professors, who have the Word and Precepts of God daily published in your Ears, and proclaimed in your hearing, and you go away informed, convinced, and the heart cannot gainsay but it ought to stoop, your carriages should not be wayward, your words sharpish, your behaviours uncomely: and yet you dare, you do […], carelessly adventure at the next time and […] upon the same sins; you may talk what others say by […], […] profess in words that sin is the greatest evil of all, but in truth you never saw sin to this day, much […] saw it to be the greatest evil of all. A little evil, were is but the […] of so much of thy blood by stripes, or the ⟨p. 105⟩loss of so much money, wert thou punished in thy purse for such wretchlessness, they would cause thee to set thy mind, and heart, and hand to thy work, the loss of thy life, and soul, and Heaven, and God, and all would prevail more with thee; but in truth thou never yet knewest what the loss of these meant, and therefore not what thy sin is that brings the loss of all.
〈…〉 to this you disobedient Children and rebellious Servants, who have the Commands of Parents and Masters, Counsels of Servants and Neighbors dayly suggested and pressed upon you; listen to this you heedless Professors, who have the Word and Precepts of God dayly published in your Ears, and proclaimed in your hearing, and you go away informed, convinced, and the heart cannot gainsay but it ought to stoop, your carriages should not be wayward, your words sharpish, your behaviors uncomely: and yet you dare, you do 〈…〉, carelesly adventure at the next time and 〈…〉 upon the same sins; you may talk what others say by 〈…〉, 〈…〉 profess in words that sin is the greatest evil of al, but in truth you never saw sin to this day, much 〈…〉 saw it to be the greatest evil of al. A little evil, were is but the 〈…〉 of so much of thy blood by stripes, or the