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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 was but a cast of her countenance, a look of her eye, one would have thought it had been but a little matter; the thing was little and easy, and therefore more easily it might have been discharged, therefore the […] desire was exceeding strong, and the provocation exceeding great, and the […] sharp and remarkable when the Command is plain and express, the Duty so open before us that it cannot but be discerned, easy and familiar to be […]. It's a […] current of corruption and […] impudency, to sin in the face of a command, and under the ⟨p. 174⟩eye and check of Conscience, therefore our saviour leaves a star as it were, a memorandum upon that part of the story Remember Lots Wife, beware how you go against an express charge in services which may easily be accomplished, Luke. 7. 32. […] like you may see Numb. 15. 31. 32. in the man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath, look we at the thing it self, what can any man imagine of less moment, and smaller consequence, to gather a few sticks, he was alone, he enticed no man to the like evil, and it should seem not in so open a place, for they found him, but if you look into the foregoing verse its a special instance of one that should sin presumptuously, there is most of the venom and poison of a mans heart in such a practice.
It was but a cast of her countenance, a look of her eye, one would have thought it had been but a little matter; the thing was little and easie, and therefore more easily it might have been discharged, therefore the 〈…〉 desire was exceeding strong, and the provocation exceeding great, and the 〈…〉 sharp and remarkable when the Command is plain and express, the Duty so open before us that it cannot but be discerned, easie and familiar to be 〈…〉. It's a 〈…〉 current of corruption and 〈…〉 impudencie, to sin in the face of a command, and under the ⟨p. 174⟩