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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.
Awaken Conscience, call for the help of it, and put it into commission, and it will put forth an overruling power, for the settling of our apprehensions in their attentive employments; when sometimes they are routed and put by their proper exercise, by the unruly and inordinate distempers of our hearts. For reason and understanding are the underlings as it were of inferior and lower rank, and can but as servants and attendants offer and propound to the will and affections; what they […] and conceive may be most convenient, and the wretched way wardness of our hearts, will either snub or silence them, reject or cast them away, you befool reason, damp and pervert the light of judgment, tell reason she is a fool and is deceived and drive it to another search sometimes in the Saints […] and will are for the work. The one pleads for it the other approves and desires it; and yet the violence and outrage of some overbearing corruptions take off Meditation and hinder it against the heart and hair against our judgment and desire. Now conscience is to be called in who hath received a supreme authority, to oversee both, to right all such disorders and to see that the mind have its free scope, for the exercise of Meditation in his times and turns. And that this is so, Experience of all men in all ages will give in evidence undeniable; the Godly, their Conscience is controller in their whole course by the beck and least intimation of whose authority, the frame of their spirits inwardly and their carriages outwardly are […], so as they can do nothing against the truth (2 Cor. 13. 8.) & dictate of their Conscience they could do any thing against their credit and comfort and profit yea their very lives […] not against their Conscience. Witness again the wrestlings of the spirits of the ungodly, when ⟨p. 280⟩their […] reason hath contrived all ways and shifts their hearts earnestly desired, also how to stifle and stop the mouth of Conscience, to silence his dictates, that they might proceed in the practice of their lawless course, without stop and trouble and disquiet and the sad remembrance of that guilt and […] which Conscience tyres them with, but all in vain when Conscience is armed with authority and exerciseth that authority which is given it, is in his place and doth the […] of […] place but I say you must put it into commission;
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