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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.
How may we get help against the stubbornness of but hearts, against that resistance and […] that we find in our selves to this contrition of […]?
How may we get help against the stubbornness of but hearts, against that resistance and 〈…〉 that we find in our selves to this contrition of 〈…〉?
The Directions are Three.
Do not tug with this resistance in thine own power, 1or any ability that is in thee; do not in thine own strength contest with that rebellion, for it's certain this ⟨p. 450⟩will make it excessive rebellious; when thou seemest to […] violence to thy self, thou wilt be more […], nay thou wilt grow to a kind of fellness and […] of opposition against the Work of Gods Grace; Sin becomes out of measure sinful by the Commandment, Rom. 7. 13. and instead of quarrelling with thy sins, thou wilt quarrel with the Almighty; and if I do what I can, why should not God help me? Mark, now you are quarrelling with God; and because you cannot do what you should, you will do nothing: this is ordinary and usual, you will find a Hellish fierceness of Spirit upon this turn.
Do not tug with this resistance in thine own power,