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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.
Heart.] It properly signifies that chief part in a mans Body, wherein the Fountain of the Vital Spirits lies; that which lives first (as they say) and dies last; that's the Natural signification. But here it's Spiritually understood, and it's put for the Will and ⟨p. 325⟩Affections, which have their proper place of abode there, and express their special Operations in a principal manner, according as Objects are presented, and occasion offered: And thus it's taken in this place (not to trouble you with other variety of apprehensions) thus you shall find it frequently in the Scripture; The heart shall fear, Deut. 28. 67. Joy of heart, Isa. 65. 14. Sorrow of heart, Levit. 26. 16. &c. And out of the heart comes murders and adulteries, Matth. 15. 19. All which carry undeniably the work of the Will and Affections, according as they put forth several Operations as they meet with several Objects. So that this was not a slight and overly rippling of the skin, but a piercing to the quick, reached unto the very heart-root, that which cut asunder the Sovereignty of the choice of the Will, and made that stand back, and go off from those loathsome corruptions, which were as near as the soul to the soul; and they were all pricked as one man in the one and the same manner in the heart; they were all wounded, as though there had been but one heart in them all. Hence we shall propound divers Points, and pursue that which is the main.
Heart.] It properly signifies that chief part in a mans Body, wherein the Fountain of the Vital Spirits lies; that which lives first (as they say) and dies last; that's the Natural signification. But here it's Spiritually understood, and it's put for the Will and ⟨p. 325⟩Affections, which have their proper place of abode there, and express their special Operations in a principal manner, according as Objects are presented, and occasion offered: And thus it's taken in this place (not to trouble you with other variety of apprehensions) thus you shal find it frequently in the Scripture; The heart shal fear,