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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.
Who those be that make this excuse, that each man §1may take his portion, that those may not be burdened by mistakes who desire to burden themselves, that we may not bruise the broken in spirit. There be two sorts of forgetful persons.
First, such who in the sense of their own feebleness and brittleness of memory are not able to keep the wholesome truths, those heavenly treasures which many times are commended to their care & observance, but those precious promises, precious comforts & directions, they slip away out of their weak memories like pure liquor out of a leaking vessel, which makes them sit down in silence, and their hearts sink in discouragement loaded with the loathsomeness and greatness of the evil, that they cannot tell how to bear it, nor yet to bear up their hearts under the weight of it, they conceive it so heinous, so dangerous a sin; that which we cannot retain say they, how shall we have the use of it, how shall we answer the loss of such glorious truths, and the very weight of the evil shakes their very hopes many times. And you shall ever observe the favour the Lord shows to such weak ones and the work of his grace in them, that though through the scantness and narrowness of their memories, ⟨p. 137⟩they are not able to keep things in their order & to make report of them; yet so much as they have present use for they will have that at hand. and such truths which they shall have need of for after times they are never generally called to the practice of them, but they are called to their minds, Gods spirit brings them to remembrance their hearts by faith received them and hold them Mat. 13. 23. but the narrowness of their memory was like a house that had but scant rooms, kept them in a lumber together, but there they were, and therefore the […] brings them forth. John 14. 26. The comforter […] bring all things to your remembrance, These are not the persons we now speak unto, for they lighten a d lessen their evil by this means, these find it heavy and load […] hearts with Godly sorrow for it.