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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.
Let them know their folly. When they would avoid §1their misery they take the only way to increase it. They keep in the fire, and make it flame more; dam the stream and cause it to swell over the banks; while they defer […] accounts they increase the debt and the danger also. You will not see your sins, you shall see them, ⟨p. 226⟩you will not see them here by the light of the word for your Humiliation, you shall see them by the flames of Hell fire, and there be forced to read over all your wretchedness for your everlasting ruin; you would not have your hearts break for them while there was hope to be cased, you shall burn in the […] pit when you will be beyond hope ever to be recovered. Thou wouldest forget them, and cast them behind thy back: know assuredly thy distempers will meet thee like an armed […], […] will mind thee of them, These things thou […] done, and set them in order before thee and tear thee in pieces when there will be none to deliver thee, Psal. 50. 21. 22. Then thou wilt curse thy self and thy […], and wish, oh that I had hearkened, oh […] […] had […].
Let them know their folly. When they would avoyd §1their miserie they take the only way to encrease it. They keep in the fire, and make it flame more; dam the stream and cause it to swel over the banks; while they defer 〈…〉 accounts they encrease the debt and the danger also. You wil not see your sins, you shal see them, ⟨p. 226⟩you wil not see them here by the light of the word for your Humiliation, you shal see them by the flames of Hell fire, and there be forced to read over al your wretchedness for your everlasting ruin; you would not have your hearts break for them while there was hope to be cased, you shal burn in the 〈…〉 pit when you wil be beyond hope ever to be recovered. Thou wouldest forget them, and cast them behind thy back: know assuredly thy distempers wil meet thee like an armed 〈…〉, 〈…〉 wil mind thee of them, These things thou done, and set them in order before thee and tear thee in pieces when there wil be none to deliver thee,