A44342:1783
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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This is a means also to preserve him from it afterward; if once he have throughly smarted for his sin, he will fear to meddle with it; […] he have felt the danger of the Surfeit, he will taste the Sweet-meat no […].
This is a means also to preserve him from it afterward; if once he have throughly smarted for his sin, he will fear to meddle with it; 〈…〉 he have felt the danger of the Surfet, he wil tast the Sweet-meat no 〈…〉.
TRIAL. We have here Ground of Discovery1 how to pass a safe Sentence touching the Spiritual Estate of some persons, namely, The easy and sudden conversion of such who have been grossly wicked, or scandalously vile: By grossly wicked, I mean such who have been taken aside with some loathsome abominations, though they carry it never so covertly, as your close […], fornications, thefts, murders, continued forgeries of false-hood and injustice: By scandalously vile, I mean such who have continued in an open tract of professed opposition against the power of Godliness: I say, the easy and sudden conversion of such, gives just ground of suspicion why they may question the truth of the Work, and others justly suspect it, […] their judgments be settled by sad proof, long experience, and that upon serious observation. It's not Gods ordinary way, and therefore men should take more than ordinary trial before they trust, or in truth thou trust […] self. The proceeding of God in his Word and Providence, are according to the Rules of Wisdom, and the right order of causes and means, by which he hath appointed to bring about his own will, and the Work of his Grace in the hearts of his. To save men per saltum is not Gods usual way, that works of greatest weight and difficulty, should be done in so little time, and with so little labour and trouble, in other cases thou wouldst think it […]; why shouldst thou judg the contrary reasonable in this, which is hardest, and the weightiest work of all other, unless thou hast more than ordinary warrant for it? When men grow rich of a sudden, and to a great