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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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When Meditation hath thus taken hold of the heart, §3it then drags it to the Throne of Justice, and then drives it to seek out for payment and satisfaction, without which it cannot be eased nor delivered. This is the Markstone, within which the bounds and limits of Meditation are to be confined that it may be ordered and acted aright, according to the Method of the Almighty, and a right Rule. When the soul is summoned to answer the Charge, and is under the Arrest, and not able to escape, it finds now the severity of Gods Justice that exacts all, even the utmost, the greatness of the debt, and it's own inability to answer; yet pay he must, or else he must perish. It drives the soul to see a need of a Christ and mercy, and that it ought to seek out thither for relief and satisfaction: This is the aim of the Duty, and Gods end in fastening thus the filth, and guilt, and desert of sin upon the soul, and it should be our end also. And here a Three-fold extreme unto which the soul is very subject in the exercise of this Service, is especially to be avoided.
When Meditation hath thus taken hold of the heart, §3it then drags it to the Throne of Justice, and then drives it to seek out for payment and satisfaction, without which it cannot be eased nor delivered. This is the Markstone, within which the bounds and limits of Meditation are to be confined that it may be ordered and acted aright, according to the Method of the Almighty, and a right Rule. When the soul is summoned to answer the Charge, and is under the Arrest, and not able to escape, it finds now the severity of Gods Justice that exacts all, even the utmost, the greatness of the debt, and it's own inability to answer; yet pay he must, or else he must perish. It drives the soul to see a need of a Christ and mercy, and that it ought to seek out thither for relief and satisfaction: This is the aim of the Duty, and Gods end in fastening thus the filth, and guilt, and desert of sin upon the soul, and it should be our end also. And here a Three-fold extream unto which the soul is very subject in the exercise of this Service, is especially to be avoided.