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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
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.
[…] God the Father intended the benefit and […] 1of all by the death and blood-shed of Christ, and […] also undertook and discharged it for that end, […] that seriously and throughly, then the Lord Jesus […] use those means which might be most useful and […] to attain it; then he would pray for them […] his sufferings which he did intend for their good, […] be made available thereunto, for that is an […] and ever speeding means. But Christ professeth […], nor would not pray for the world, John, 17. 9. […] for them, I pray not for the world; and the […] proves it, for what Christ prays for, that he […], John, 11. 22. 42. I know that thou hearest me […]: but this is not obtained, therefore was […] desired, therefore not intended by Christ, […] for this end our Saviour did not lay down his life, undertake his sufferings: For what he suffered, that he intended, his own end was most serious in own intention; that he intended, he desired; that he […], he obtained: that he obtained not, he desired ⟨p. 18⟩not, and that he intended not, therefore for that […] he did not suffer.
〈…〉 God the Father intended the benefit and 〈…〉 1of all by the death and blood-shed of Christ, and 〈…〉 also undertook and discharged it for that end, 〈…〉 that seriously and throughly, then the Lord Jesus 〈…〉 use those means which might be most useful and 〈…〉 to attain it; then he would pray for them 〈…〉 his sufferings which he did intend for their good, 〈…〉 be made available thereunto, for that is an 〈…〉 and ever speeding means. But Christ professeth , nor would not pray for the world,