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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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Many times he begins to tamper and trade with the §2spirits of his, when they are young and tender, and their years few, drops in some grain of the immortal Seed of the Word, which takes root by the powerful operation of the Spirit, and grows up with them as they grow in years, 2 Chron. 34. 3. While Josiah was yet young, […] eight years old he began to seek after the God of his Fathers, and declined not to the right hand, or to the left; So the Lord seemed to deal with Joseph, and to reveal himself to him, and to Samuel very young, at about fourteen years.
Many times he begins to tamper and trade with the §2spirits of his, when they are yong and tender, and their yeers few, drops in some grain of the immortal Seed of the Word, which takes root by the powerful operation of the Spirit, and grows up with them as they grow in yeers, 2 Chron. 34. 3. While Josiah was yet yong, 〈…〉 eight yeers old he began to seek after the God of his Fathers, and declined not to the right hand, or to the left; So the Lord seemed to deal with Joseph, and to reveal himself to him, and to Samuel very yong, at about fourteen yeers.
Sometimes God keeps his by the strokes of his common §3Graces, restraining from scandalous evils, and constraining by means appointed and blessed to that end, the holy […], the counsels and examples of Godly Parents, the society of such who are […], the power of the Ordinances under which they are bred and brought up, tolling and tilling of their […] and affections by many moral persuasions, to the love and liking of the excellency of a holy course, which he knows how to present, and by which to […] out the exercise of all those moral abilities they are endued withal, and at the last insensibly, and yet truly […] them off from the root of old Adam, and implants into the […] Vine Christ Jesus; Lydia and Zachaeus are Presidents of Gods proceeding in this case; whence it is that many a godly man and true Convert, never knew the time of his Conversion, only he knows he was blind, and God hath brought him to see the wonders of his way and Truth.