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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.
Now the sinner (I say now) in this state and under 1this stroke, […] an inability in himself, nay utter […] […] […] the weight of the […] sin, which is […] […] […] […] soul by the Almighty and therefore is now put […] […] and […] conditions and […] that his […] […] […] him before withal […] […] […] […]. But […] definitively, ⟨p. 588⟩no more ado, no further talk; I see I cannot bear the sting of the least sin, and therefore I must not keep it. Heretofore he could make a shift to shake off the fear of the threatenings of the word, which were denounced to stop the mouth of his Conscience, which whispered bitter things in his bosom, and to wear away the […] that stuck in his heart; and therefore fondly conceited he could make a […] to bear the weight that should befall, that he might possess and enjoy the pleasures and content his […] courses did promise to his carnal heart. But he finds it otherwise; his heart say less him under pressure of one sin, Psal. 130, 3. If thou shouldest mark what is done amiss Lord who should […] it. An ignorant soul settled in his secure condition out of self deluding pride of his own spirit, would […] that he could abide the misery and so the danger that might accrue to him by his distemper, and so is fearless to maintain it. But now he finds he is not able to abide that which his sin doth bring let him put the best of all his abilities together to improvement […]. 14. can thy heart endure &c. the time was they thought their hearts could endure, the frolic Epicure, and flinty hearted sinner, he wonders at he feebleness of the distressed and broken-hearted, that they should be such children, persons of such feeble and milksop dispositions to sink at a Sermon and be troubled at the words of a Preacher, tush his Conscience is cannon proof, he can hear and bear all and yet pleal […] and bless himself in the pursuit of his lusts, as before times. Oh, thou […] do so, while men deal with thee, thou mayest avoid their blow or make an escape out of their hands; but when God shall deal with thee in that day when thou fallest into the, hands of the living God. Hebr. 10. who lives to torment the to eternity what wilt thou do? The shadow and appearance of the hand-writing shook Belshazzars heart when he was quaffing in his cups, in the ruff of his riot, what would the stroke of that hand