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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.
Come and bring thy soul into Gods Presence, lay thy 1self down in his sight, and tell the Lord that thou art a Traitor, and which is worse, thou canst not but be so, that's thy misery; make known all the base abominations of thy heart and life before the Lord, and all that […] and opposition that thou findest in thy soul to Christ and his Grace, beseech him to take away the treachery and falseness of thy heart, beseech him that he would do that for thee that thou canst not do for thy self; tell him that thou wouldst choose not to be, rather than to be thus treacherous; tell him that he hath said, he will take away the heart of stone, Ezek. 36. 26. and that it is not in thy power to put it away, and therefore leave thy soul there, beseeching him to make known himself as a God hearing prayers, pardoning sins, and subduing iniquities; plead the Covenant of Grace, and the Promises of it, that all is freely, and firstly, and wholly from himself, that he must make us his People, he must make us humble and broken-hearted; Look to Jesus Christ, and beseech him that […] the Keys of Hell and Death, that he would unlock those brazen gates and doors of thy heart, Rev. 1. 18.
Come and bring thy soul into Gods Presence, lay thy 1