A44342:1852
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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How it's possible that the soul […] wholly possessed with sin, can be made to feel the weight of sin as to be severed from it, where there is no room for a habit in the subject, there can be no work of a habit; for habits of Grace and sin work so far as they be in their subject, and have […] from the subjects in which they be: Corruption must be in the heart, before it carry and command the heart; Grace must be in the soul, before it can act and quicken the soul to its work. Now how the soul should come to feel, and be loosened from it's corruption, when there is nothing in it but corruption, ⟨p. 380⟩when God comes to work upon it, how doth God bring this about?
How it's possible that the soul 〈…〉 wholly possessed with sin, can be made to feel the weight of sin as to be severed from it, where there is no room for a habit in the subject, there can be no work of a habit; for habits of Grace and sin work so far as they be in their subject, and have 〈…〉 from the subjects in which they be: Corruption must be in the heart, before it carry and command the heart; Grace must be in the soul, before it can act and quicken the soul to its work. Now how the soul should come to feel, and be loosened from it's corruption, when there is nothing in it but corruption, ⟨p. 380⟩when God comes to work upon it, how doth God bring this about?
If by Sorrow a man be […] from sin, then it must have this […] before it be loosened, because it is an effect of it. If so, then it must have a gracious frame, and be possessed with the presence of Grace, when it's wholly possessed with sin, which cannot be.
If by Sorrow a man be 〈…〉 from sin, then it must have this before it be loosened, because it is an effect of it. If so, then it must have a gracious frame, and be possessed with the presence of Grace, when it's wholly possessed with sin, which cannot be.