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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.
It's matter of wonderment able to swallow up the: 1heart of a sinner with the everlasting admiration of this […], unmatchable kindness of the Lord. Micah, 7. 18. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardonest iniquity, and passest by the transgression of the remnant of his Heritage: He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he […] in mercy; he will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the Sea. You that have tasted how good the Lord is, and found this Truth made good in your own hearts by your own experience; as Paul was wont to recount his course, I was a persecutor, blasphemous and, 2injurious, but I obtained mercy. I doubt not but many of you may say, if ever there was a Fiend in Hell, or a Rebel upon Earth, I was one; an opposer of the Gospel, a despiser of the means of Grace, a hater of the holy ways of the Lord, and his servants that walk therein: yet then God did me good, when I desired and […] my own hurt. Get ye homey blessed Saints, and in the secret of your Closets call Heaven and Earth together, and leave these compassions upon Record. Say, the time was this carnal mind of mine plotted my wretched […], and mine own ruin, but then the Lord prevented both; I opposed […] entreaties, and he yet pursued me, and would take no […]; he called after me, wept over me, Turn ye, turn 3ye, why will you die? I provoked him, he pitied me; I resisted him, he embraced me; I said I would have none of him nor his Grace, he said he would have no denial; I resolved to walk on in the frowardness of mine own […], and to perish in the despite of all means, and he would and did show me mercy in the despite of the pride and rebellion of this heart, or else I had never ⟨p. 323⟩seen this day, nor never had hope to see his face in glory. Be astonished and confounded at this, O ye Devils, and come down ye blessed Angels from Heaven, and magnify this mercy. Leave this in your last will and testament to your little ones, O ye Fathers; leave this as a pattern of compassions to all ensuing Ages, that they may love this God, and fear this God, &c.