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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 daubing discourses and roving reproofs, toothless, powerless dispensations, like arrows shot a cock-height, they touch not, trouble not, and in the issue profit no man at all. They come proud and stubborn and perverse and careless, they sit so and return so, day […] day and year aster year. But you should shake up a sinner, go down under the hatches to Jonah set upon the hearts of men in particular Awake thou […]. Thou a master of a family and […] not, […] not those that are under thee? Thou a servant yet stubborn and […], and […] not to those that are set over thee in the Lord: […] thou a Wife and dost not reverence and obey with […] him ⟨p. 200⟩whom God hath made thy head and guide? Art thou a member of a Christian Congregation, and hast the name of Christ called upon thee, and art thou treacherous to the Covenant of Christ, opposest the government and spirit of Christ, and despisest the […] of the Lord Jesus? Awake you […] masters and rebellious servants, perverse wives, treacherous and […] embers; Know that your Religion is vain and your selves also while these distempers rest in your bosom; call upon your own hearts for […] and repentance, and unto God for mercy that you perish not. Thus when Peter was recovered out of his fall, and had the blood of Christ running warm in his veins, and the power of the spirit of the Lord now setting on the right hand of the Father filling his heart with love to his Saviour and zeal for his glory; see how sharply […] applies the keenest […] to cut the Consciences of all to whom he speaketh without fear or partiality, Acts. 4. 10. 11. Be it known to you, Oh ye rulers and all ye people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus of Nazareth whom ye have crucified, you have slain the just and innocent one and desired a murderer to be given to you &c. and see the success, God added daily to the Church such as should be saved. It's Cartwrights expression, when our saviour sent out the sons of thunder then Satan fell like lightening from Heaven, the right levelling the ordinances of Christ will […] make battery in the kingdom of Satan; sharp reproofs make sound Christians. It's a course which God commends in scripture, and hath not failed to bless. Judges 2. 4.
Those daubing discourses and roving reproofes, toothless, powerless dispensations, like arrowes shot a cock-height, they touch not, trouble not, and in the issue profit no man at all. They come proud and stubborn and perverse and careless, they sit so and returne so, day day and year aster year. But you should shake up a sinner, go down under the hatches to Jonah set upon the hearts of men in particular Awake thou . Thou a master of a family and not, not those that are under thee? Thou a servant yet stubborn and , and not to those that are set over thee in the Lord: thou a Wife and dost not reverence and obey with him