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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.
They are ready to submit to the Ministers of God, 1making known his mind, the very words which they express argues such a disposition of spirit, they come as Patients to the Physician to know his advice that they may take it. As clients to the Lawyer, to understand his counsel that they may follow it. So it was with Paul when God set upon his heart, intimates his mistake to him that it was hard for him to kick against the pricks; he trembling & astonished, Lord what wilt thou have me to do? Acts, 9. 6. not his own will but Gods he attends now, not what he would have done, but what God would have done, Psal 45. 5. When Gods arrows are sharp and stick fast in the hearts of his enemies, the people fall under him.
They are ready to submit to the Ministers of God, 1making known his mind, the very words which they expresse argues such a disposition of spirit, they come as Patients to the Physitian to know his advice that they may take it. As clyents to the Lawyer, to understand his counsel that they may follow it. So it was with Paul when God set upon his heart, intimates his mistake to him that it was hard for him to kick against the pricks; he trembling & astonished, Lord what wilt thou have me to do? Acts, 9. 6. not his own wil but Gods he attends now, not what he would have done, but what God would have done, Psal 45. 5. When Gods arrows are sharp and stick fast in the hearts of his enemies, the people fal under him.
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