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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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Several things I would suggest here by way of help.
See what is the breeding and the seeding root, the next and immediate cause of this fickle and unsteady roving of thy mind, and redress that, and the Cure will follow, and the cause will be most easily thus discovered, and so also removed.
Observe whether those wandering thoughts that are […] and roving in a restless manner from one thing to another, like your fluttering Butterflies which fall upon many Herbs, but […] and draw out Honey from none: observe I say, whether those unsteady thoughts pass upon the multitude and variety of things, which have no coherence one with another, no dependence one upon another, but here and there, and every where, as your vagrant beggars that have no settled abode: or else observe, though a mans thoughts be full of variety and uncertainty, straggling here and there, and compassing many coasts to and again, yet for the issue, they border and Butt for the most part upon some one subject, or aim at one thing mainly, though Spaniel-like they coast up and down, and cross all ways, and meet with multitudes in their course, yet their game is that which at last they look at. So here.
Observe whether those wandring thoughts that are 〈…〉 and roving in a restless manner from one thing to another, like your fluttering Butterflies which fall upon many Herbs, but 〈…〉 and draw out Honey from none: observe I say, whether those unsteady thoughts pass upon the multitude and variety of things, which have no cohaerence one with another, no dependance one upon another, but here and there, and every where, as your vagrant beggars that have no settled abode: or else observe, though a mans thoughts be full of variety and uncertainty, stragling here and there, and compassing many coasts to and again, yet for the issue, they border and Butt for the most part upon some one subject, or aim at one thing mainly, though Spannel-like they coast up and down, and cross al waies, and meet with multitudes in their course, yet their game is that which at last they look at. So here.