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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.
Thy person comes most to be abhorred and loathed by 1the Almighty, for which thou vainly conceivest thou mayest be pitied. We pity a man that drinks poison because it's not his disposition to be so, but the infection that befell him; but the Spider and the Toad we abhor the sight, and not endure to touch them, because they are […] a poysonful Nature. So it is with the Spiritual plague of thy Soul; even the dearest of Gods Servants ⟨p. 125⟩may be surprised with a pang of pride, overborne with a sudden hurry of passion, and frowardness, and the Lord pities, and pardons, and passeth it by, and will not lay it to their charge, because it was their Disease, not their disposition, their temptation and surprisal; not their purpose, the Lord looks at it so. You have heard of the Patience of Job, James 6. But when such noisome lusts become Natural, and that we live in them, as in our Element, when we have, and keep, and own an accursed poysonful Nature, it's that which the Lord detests; The froward in spirit is an abomination to the Lord, Prov. 3. 32. In the old Law it was observed, that when the Leprosy tainted the Skin, but did not spread, the Leper was pronounced clean; but if it did fret into the flesh, it was unclean; to teach us, that though we had leprous distempers that tainted and defiled our performances, yet if they did not fret into the flesh, our affections taken aside with them, the Lord looks at us as clean in his Christ, because it was not we that in our hearts purposed the evil, but sin that prevailed against our purpose; but if we hugged them in our bosom, laid them nigh unto our hearts, and took them as our Natures, we were loathsome in the sight of God.
Thy person comes most to be abhorred and loathed by 1the Almighty, for which thou vainly conceivest thou mayest be pitied. We pity a man that drinks poyson because it's not his disposition to be so, but the infection that befel him; but the Spider and the Toad we abhor the sight, and not endure to touch them, because they are 〈…〉 a poysonful Nature. So it is with the Spiritual plague of thy Soul; even the dearest of Gods Servants