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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.
God opens the windows of Heaven, and the fountains of the great […], and sends in a Deluge of his displeasure and wrath, and destroys those hard-hearted Rebels from off the face of the Earth; me thinks I hear those flinty stiffnecked wretches, […] and crying, drowning and dying, and roaring out their wretchedness, those loose Libertines, eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in 1marriage, and knew nothing, i. e. and would know nothing; their Cups in their hands, and Queans in their Arms, and despair in their mouths: Oh we shut our Ears, and hardened our hearts against the striving of Gods Spirit, the call of Gods Messengers, the warning and entreaties of Gods patience: We would not receive Counsel and terms of Peace and Mercy, and therefore we now perish without Mercy, cursing one another, and breathing out their last; Cursed be the day that ever I knew thee, by thy carnal deceits I was strengthened; Cursed be thou and thy company, by thy example I was ⟨p. 432⟩[…] ⟨p. 433⟩[…] ⟨p. 434⟩deluded and hardened: Thus they are accursed, and go cursing down to the depth of the Sea, and so to the depth of the bottomless Pit.
God opens the windows of Heaven, and the fountains of the great 〈…〉, and sends in a Deluge of his displeasure and wrath, and destroies those hard-hearted Rebels from off the face of the Earth; me thinks I hear those flinty stiffnecked wretches, 〈…〉 and crying, drowning and dying, and roaring out their wretchedness, those loose Libertines, eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in 1marriage, and knew nothing, i. e. and would know nothing; their Cups in their hands, and Queans in their Arms, and despair in their mouths: Oh we shut our Ears, and hardened our hearts against the striving of Gods Spirit, the call of Gods Messengers, the warning and entreaties of Gods patience: We would not receive Counsel and terms of Peace and Mercy, and therefore we now perish without Mercy, cursing one another, and breathing out their last; Cursed be the day that ever I knew thee, by thy carnal deceits I was strengthened; Cursed be thou and thy company, by thy example I was