A44342:202
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
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.
So again, Jerem. 31. 33. I will be their God, and they shall be my people: Zach. 13. last, I will say it is my people, and they shall say thou art the Lord our God: Here again is the sum of the Covenant comprised, and all the particulars with the manner of the work included and presupposed, as the Apostle once for all expounds these and the like passages, 2 Cor. 6. 16. I will be their God and they shall be my people, wherefore come out from among […], and be ye separate and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive ⟨p. 32⟩you, and will be a father to you, and ye […] be my sons and daughters saith the Lord […]. If they touch no unclean thing, but be separate […] Sin, Self, and the Creature, and so come out of […] these in preparation, and come to him in effectual vocation, then he will be a father to them in his Christ, and make them his Children in Adoption, and then he will write his laws in their hearts, and renew them to that Holiness which in Adam they lost, and so enable them to walk in his ways. And therefore when the Lord promiseth by the […] Isa. 43. 25 I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own names sake, and will not remember […] sins: that is, I do justify thee freely when I have made thee to believe by my free grace; For it cannot be conceived that the Lord would pass the Sentence of Absolution upon her while she remained in the […] of Unbelief: For then that of the Apostle should fail, Its one God that justifies the Jews by Faith, and the Gentiles through Faith, Rom. 3. 30. Therefore look the 20 and 21 vers. of this Chapt. (for we must not have one place jostle against another) and there you shall […] it is said, I will do this and that for my People, my Chosen, which are Believers, and of them and unto them it is said, vers. 25. I will blot out thy sins for my own sake: The resolving of these Cases, and information of these Doubts, infers undeniably thus much, That there is no Absolute Promise that either gives or maintains assurance of our good estate, but such only wherein God engageth […] to work the Condition, or else doth of necessity imply it wrought.