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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.
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those gave in evidence of the direfulness and inconceivable heinousness of those contumelious speeches against our Saviour, when they said, He casteth out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of Devils; It is not said he heard their words, though blasphemous, but ⟨p. 161⟩he saw their thoughts, they issued out of their apprehensions, their thoughts being calm and quiet, it was not some base pang or passion; but when they had no provocation, their own thoughts carried them against the evidence of all Truth, merely out of the venom of their own hearts. This was unpardonable blasphemy; and in truth there is no Creature but a reasonable Creature that can close not with the Creature only, but with God in his Rule, that can sin, nor is there any sin properly but where the mind and heart is an Ingredient in it. So the ravished Maid, though her body was abused, yet her person was not charged as guilty of sin, nor she polluted therewith, because her judgment was not there assenting, nor her heart yielding thereunto.
those gave in evidence of the direfulness and inconceivable hainousness of those contumelious speeches against our Savior, when they said, He casteth out Devils by Belzebub the Prince of Devils; It is not said he heard their words, though blasphemous, but ⟨p. 161⟩he saw their thoughts, they issued out of their apprehensions, their thoughts being calm and quiet, it was not some base pang or passion; but when they had no provocation, their own thoughts carried them against the evidence of all Truth, meerly out of the venom of their own hearts. This was unpardonable blasphemy; and in truth there is no Creature but a reasonable Creature that can close not with the Creature only, but with God in his Rule, that can sin, nor is there any sin properly but where the mind and heart is an Ingredient in it. So the ravished Maid, though her body was abused, yet her person was not charged as guilty of sin, nor she polluted therewith, because her judgment was not there assenting, nor her heart yielding thereunto.