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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.
It argues a sensual sottish, Atheistical disposition of §3heart to live without God and […], in our course […] to put off the apprehensions of Christians and men these are joined together Ezek. 23. 35. Thou hast forgotten me and cast me behind thy back, to live an outlaw upon earth, when we attend not, mind not a law by which we live. Thy duty is plain which is required, the sin evident that is forbidden, thou neglectest the one and committest the other, and this is the balsam that heals and helps all; I did not once think of it. It was wholly out of thy mind, I did quite forget it; why then forget thou art a Christian, nay a man, forget there is a God, that there is a Heaven to reward […] a Hell to Torment thee, forget thou hast a soul to be saved or sins to be pardoned, or avoided until thou feelest the plagues of them, which thou […] never be able to forget nor yet to bear.
It argues a sensual sottish, Atheistcal disposition of §3heart tolive without God and 〈…〉, in our course 〈…〉 to put off the apprehensions of Christians and men these are joyned together Ezek. 23. 35. Thou hast forgotten me and cast me behind thy back, to live an outlaw upon earth, when we attend not, mind not a law by which wee live. Thy duty is plain which is required, the sin evident that is forbidden, thou neglectest the one and committest the other, and this is the balsom that heals and helps al; I did not once think of it. It was wholly out of thy mind, I did quite forget it; why then forget thou art a Christian, nay a man, forget there is a God, that there is a Heaven to reward 〈…〉 a Hell to Torment thee, forget thou hast a soul to be saved or sins to be pardoned, or avoyded until thou feelest the plagues of them, which thou 〈…〉 never be able to forget nor yet to bear.