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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.
Thus as the saints are sealed up in the day of Redemption the wicked are […] […] up under the sovereignty of their sins […] the day of destruction, thou […] have thy pride and stubbornness & […], be thou for ever proud and for ever […], and for ever […]-hearted, continue so and perish […]. There is no judgment like to this and this is the […] of sin, and that which the Lord reserves as the choicest of all his plagues the last and worst 1 Prov. 26. 28. 31. Ye shall call, but I will not hear; ye shall seek me, and shall not […] me, one would think this is heavy and harder measure could hardly be found, yes the Lord hath worse because ye despised my counsel and set at naught all my reproof, […] they shall eat the fruit of their own ways and be full of their own devices, they who frame and devise devises to contrive Contentments to their own carnal and corrupt […] carry a forge of falsehood and […] about them, to succeed in these one would have thought is the […] content such a person could take; true it is so, and that is the greatest and most dreadful plague that could befall them. When the Lord Christ takes away […] of himself and his spirit from the […] and leaves him wholly to himself and the power of Satan, & his own […] […] distempers, nothing of Gods wisdom […] their own folly shall mislead them, nothing of Gods […] but the perverse rebellion of their own hearts shall rule them and so destroy them. this is to be in hell before he come there, and so be a Devil before he come among them.
Thus as the saints are sealed up in the day of Redemption the wicked are 〈…〉 〈…〉 up under the soverainty of their sins 〈…〉 the day of destruction, thou 〈…〉 have thy pride and stubbornness & 〈…〉, be thou for ever proud and for ever 〈…〉, and for ever 〈…〉-hearted, continu so and perish 〈…〉. There is no judgment like to this and this is the 〈…〉 of sin, and that which the Lord reserves as the choycest of al his plagues the last and worst