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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.
1 Be not slight in the searching. 2 Be not too hasty to heal; 3 Be not too suddenly confident of the cure.
1 Be not slight in the searching. 2 Be not too hasty to heal; 3 Be not too suddeenly confident of the cure.
Not slight in the search for that is most dangerous, and an error here can hardly ever be recovered, go therefore to the quick, see the bottom, if ever you hope to make work of it, or to lend help indeed. He that cleaves knotty logs must have the sharpest wedges and hardest blows. Here pity is unseasonable and greatest cruelty. When out of […] we are afraid to put men to pain, we increase their pains and hasten their destruction, Jer. 6. 14. they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly. The Apostle teacheth another way. Titus. 1. 13. reprove them sharply that they may be sound in the faith. Sharp reproofs make sound Christians. He shows greatest love and mercy which follows the Lord in love and mercy. Yea it is a course that procures most ease to the party, the corrosive that eats away the proud flesh brings soonest ease because that proud flesh and humours bring all the pain. So these dreadful overbearing threatenings abate the pride of the heart, and a mans perverseness and so brings ease, for the waywardness of our own wills work our own woe, and here, not to trouble mens sins and Consciences is indeed to trouble their peace and comfort in issue. Thus Samuel. 1 Sam. 12. 20. He lesseneth nothing of their sin, only sendeth them forth to mercy for relief. Ye have indeed done all this wickedness yet do not forsake the Lord.
Not slight in the search for that is most dangerous, and an error here can hardly ever be recovered, go therefore to the quick, see the bottome, if ever you hope to make work of it, or to lend help indeed. He that cleaves knotty logs must have the sharpest wedges and hardest blowes. Here pity is unseasonable and greatest cruelty. When out of we are afraid to put men to pain, we encrease their pains and hasten their destruction,