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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.
Matter of trial, those who are careful hearers may1 without fail discover their condition, by the word that is dispensed. Art thou sick of the saving dispensations of the holy and righteous will and law of God, thou sits and shakest under it as that which passeth the doom and sentence upon thee, which thou art not able to endure nor avoid, do not cozen thy self with any vain conceivings of thy estate, or please and delude thy heart with the mistaken apprehensions and approbations of other men, it's certain thy heart is naught and condition also. If thou best sick of the truth, […] not side with it, nor receive approbation from it, when it comes in the strength and terror of it. As we say of men that ⟨p. 333⟩are sick at Sea, the cause is not in the tempest but in the stomach, because there be corrupt and noisome humours there, it's those that raise stir and trouble in the stomach and not the […], when the stomach is purged and clear, the passenger can sleep in the most tempestuous2 Seas, So it is where the heart is truly emptied and the Conscience purged from dead works, the sharpest truths would find most welcome and entertainment.
Matter of trial, those who are careful hearers may1 without fayl discover their condition, by the word that is dispensed. Art thou sick of the saving dispensations of the holy and righteous wil and law of God, thou sits and shakest under it as that which passeth the doom and sentence upon thee, which thou art not able to endure nor avoyd, do not cozen thy self with any vain conceivings of thy estate, or please and delude thy heart with the mistaken apprehensions and approbations of other men, it's certain thy heart is naught and condition also. If thou best sick of the truth, 〈…〉 not side with it, nor receive approbation from it, when it comes in the strength and terror of it. As we say of men that ⟨p. 333⟩are sick at Sea, the cause is not in the tempest but in the stomack, because there be corrupt and noysom humors there, it's those that raise stir and trouble in the stomack and not the , when the stomach is purged and clear, the passenger can sleep in the most tempestuous