A44342:1828
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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Hence flows in the fearful expression of the displeasure of the Almighty, the dreadful wrath of the Eternal, like the mighty waves of the Sea, overwhelm and sink the soul of the sinner in desperate discouragement.
Hence flowes in the fearful expression of the displeasure of the Almighty, the dreadful wrath of the Eternal, like the mighty waves of the Sea, overwhelm and sink the soul of the sinner in desperate discouragement.
There be 2 things in sin, 1 The […] of it. 2 the punishment that comes from it, the stain in it and the sting and tartness of it, cross to me, and cross to God; cross to my honour and shames me, cross to my quiet and peace and troubles me, cross to my safety and destroys me; And this second, the sinner is firstly most sensible of; the plague of sin first stings and stabs the heart. Because nature seeks its own preservation, and self love carries all men readily and easily to provide for their own safety; And here sorrow begins usually when the Lord by the Ministry of Conscience awakened, encamps about the sinner with all the curses of his righteous law broken; besiegeth him with the armies of his indignation and his fierce wrath follows him at every turn. So that now […] ever he is, which way so ever he turns himself his sins and plagues compass him about, on every side; If he look to heaven, he sees a just God there ready to destroy him, before him are his sins ready to accuse him, within him nothing but guilt to condemn him, below him hell opening her mouth prepared to receive him, and the Devils at […] to torment his wretched […] as soon as it […] depart out of his body. And […] behold […] pale […], those weak hands, and feeble knees that the poor creature becomes not worth the ground he goes on a […] […] himself and weary of his life; The Lord dishes out […] sins and plagues to him on the table where he […], writes them upon the tester of the bed […] he ⟨p. 368⟩lies his pressures and miseries become unsupportable and unsufferable: and were it not that God sustains with one hand as he beats him with the other; A wounded