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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.
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.
Somtimes 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, toling and tilling of their 〈…〉 and affections by many moral perswasions, 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; Ladia 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.