A44342:1929
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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the Lord Answers, You fast for strife and debate, and to seek your own pleasure; they made way for the maintaining and practising their sins, not for the removal of them from their hearts; and it's admirably strange how this delusion will cozen a man, and how far it will carry him, it will make him Sermon-Proof, and help him him to […] his heart against the most sharp and searching Words. As he, how came he to desire and delight in the most powerful preaching, and yet never knew what it was to need a […], or to be relieved by him? Answ. I conceive such threatenings are intended against them that will not repent and sorrow for their ⟨p. 427⟩sins, but that will I. Nay, it hath been found by experience from the confessions of many, that they would weep over their sins, and then fall to commit them; men make their lamentation over their distempers, and then return to the Commission of them: As old friends weep at their parting, not because they would be quit one of another, but it's a grievance they should part, and they hope to meet again shortly.
the Lord Answers, You fast for strife and debate, and to seek your own pleasure; they made way for the maintaining and practising their sins, not for the removal of them from their hearts; and it's admirably strange how this delusion wil cozen a man, and how far it wil carry him, it wil make him Sermon-Proof, and help him him to 〈…〉 his heart against the most sharp and searching Words. As he, how came he to desire and delight in the most powerful preaching, and yet never knew what it was to need a 〈…〉, or to be relieved by him? Answ. I conceive such threatnings are intended against them that wil not repent and sorrow for their ⟨p. 427⟩sins, but that will I. Nay, it hath been found by experience from the confessions of many, that they would weep over their sins, and then fal to commit them; men make their lamentation over their distempers, and then return to the Commission of them: As old friends weep at their parting, not because they would be quit one of another, but it's a grievance they should part, and they hope to meet again shortly.