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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.
In the efficacy and virtue, because his business lies §3with sin, his seekings will be restless and importunate, and enquiries for direction help against sin as long as sin and he lives. The Legalist when his terrors. and fears are removed, or eased, he hath done what he would and he desires to do no more, and therefore enquires no further what he should do.
In the efficacy and vertue, because his business lyes §3with sin, his seekings wil be restless and importunate, and enquiryes for direction help against sin as long as sin and he lives. The Legallist when his terrors. and fears are removed, or eased, he hath done what he would and he desires to do no more, and therefore enenquires no further what he should do.
Here's matter of DIRECTION, we hence see the 1ready way, and never failing means to set an edge upon our desires and put life into our endeavours, to make us sedulous and busy in seeking after the Lord and the things of his grace. 'Maintain a right sight of the […] of thy sin, the […] thereof which will delude thee before thou […] aware, and may be, endanger thy peace and Comfort before thou dost discern it. Maintain a right sense and feeling of the evil of thy sin, this broken-heartedness as at the first, thou wilt then enquire as at the first, pray & seek as at the first. As it is with the Patient when the disease is over, health and ease comes on […], he then begins to lay aside physic, to neglect his diet prescribed, never seeks to the […] nor sends for further counsel, Oh but if his old fits befall him, he is then as careful to use his old Physic, send presently to the Physician for fresh counsel, and advice. So it will be with the soul of a sinner, when once the wound is healed, & God […] allayed the venom of the vengeance ⟨p. 571⟩