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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.
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And if the counsel of carnal friends can lessen the trouble, company allay it, false reasonings of his own vain mind abate it, time and continuance wear out the terror, his confessions and reformations put in bail upon his Conscience, and quiet it, or some false mistakes of pardon, and mercy heal the wound, (he walks in a wily way how to serve sin and yet God too, how to keep in with the truth upon some fair terms and yet attend his own ends) the man is where he was, returns to his old sinful distempers, and the latter 1end proves worse than the beginning, he dyes in the birth. Thus millions of men perish, go within the view of Canaan, and never possess it, cast away in the very haven, within the sight of land, and never arrive.
And if the counsel of carnal friends can lessen the trouble, company allay it, false reasonings of his own vain mind abate it, time and continuance wear out the terror, his confessions and reformations put in bayl upon his Conscience, and quiet it, or some false mistakes of pardon, and mercy heal the wound, (he walks in a wily way how to serve sin and yet God too, how to keep in with the truth upon some fayr tearms and yet attend his own ends) the man is where he was, returnes to his ould sinful distempers, and the latter 1end proves worse than the beginning, he dyes in the birth. Thus millions of men perish, go within the view of Canaan, and never possess it, cast away in the very haven, within the sight of land, and never arrive.
But he whom God loves he will not leave here; & though §4his hand be upon the sore, and his eye upon the sting and terror, the plagues and judgments that are daily before his eye, the Lord will force him to look further, to see and feel something more, and worse than ever yet he found, before he have done with him; therefore he makes the wound deeper, rests not before he be at the root of the heart quite through, comes to the very quick and sees the bottom; Hence the Lord leads the soul from the terror and sting of sin, to view the stain and filth of it, which was more deer to the soul than its own […], and yet worse to the soul than all the misery and vexation that could befall it. Open here a little; There