A44342:1920
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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You will not, you cannot deny, but you have wholesome and savoury counsel daily suggested, the commands of God are line after line, precept after precept here a little and there a little, and your duties daily laid before you in public, in private, your failings bewailed, grace and help begged from the Lord for you; the truth, your judgments do not gainsay and your hearts cannot but approve, as lawful and suitable to your places and according to Gods mind, yet no sooner out of the assembly where you hear, out of the presence of your master who commands, from your knees where you have prayed and confessed, but the commands are laid by, that is not attended, this not discharged, that is neglected, you return again to the old distempers; and you say you did not remember it, you have […] it, you did not think of it. What need we more evidence? […] own words shall be thine own […], and appeal to thine own Conscience, let that be […] own judg; didst thou ever hear any man that […] under the load that was two heavy for him, wearied with the burden that is beyond his strength, as not able to bear, nor to ease himself, say he did not remember the burden that […] him. he did not think of the weight of the load that clogs and tires him; would you not […] such expressions as cross to common sense, or would you not conclude either the man had no burden or else his words had no truth?
You wil not, you cannot deny, but you have wholsom and savory counsel daily suggested, the commands of God are line after line, precept after precept here a little and there a little, and your duties daily layd before you in publick, in private, your failings bewailed, grace and help begged from the Lord for you; the truth, your judgments do not gainsay and your hearts cannot but approve, as lawful and suitable to your places and according to Gods mind, yet no sooner out of the assembly where you hear, out of the presence of your master who commads, from your knees where you have prayed and confessed, but the commands are layd by, that is not attended, this not discharged, that is neglected, you return again to the old distempers; and you say you did not remember it, you have 〈…〉 it, you did not think of it. What need we more evidence? 〈…〉 own words shal be thine own 〈…〉, and appeal to thine own Conscience, let that be 〈…〉 own judg; didst thou ever hear any man that 〈…〉 under the load that was two heavy for him, wearied with the burden that is beyond his strength, as not able to bear, nor to ease himself, say he did not remember the burden that him. he did not think of the weight of the load that clogges and tires him; would you not such expressions as cross to common sence, or would you not conclude either the man had no burden or else his words had no truth?