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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.
God will allow none, I can bear none, no not the sting of the least sin, when God will let it in, nor you neither when once the Lord will pursue you with the least expression of his displeasure, I cannot have any sin seem it never so small, but I must […] under the power of all, nor ever have any possibility of any good. As Ruth to ⟨p. 592⟩Naomi when she advised her to stay or return when she came with her, she puts an end to all such persuasions,1 entreat me not, for I will not leave thee, so […] is with a soul sensible and soundly affected with the evil of his sin, he is beyond […] […] and carnal reasonings, he will hear nothing, the soul is overpowered with a sovereign kind of absolute necessity, he hath found by proof, which puts to silence what ever can be said to the contrary q. d. cease reasoning about that for which no reason can be […], […] not that which hath no ground of persuasion, it […] admit a case of exception, therefore I will not once take it into consideration nothing can be spoken of weight or worth, and therefore […] to speak further. Its not necessary I should not be poor, […], despised, It's absolutely necessary I should not be sinful. I have no […] from God, I should not leave and loose my life, my liberty, but I have a […] charge without all exception; I should leave my sin. Art thou come to that with the three Children, […]. […]. 17. 18. Our God can deliver, but if he will not, be it […] unto thee […] will not fall down and worship &c. Its necessary we should maintain the truth of Gods worship, its not necessary […] should maintain our lives. Resolvest thou with them Hos. 14. 3. Ashur […] […] save us, […] will we go down to […], nor say any more to the work of […] hands ye are our Gods I will no more be proud or perverse, no more loose or vain, […] […] listen to the pleasing dalliance of mine own heart, that Dale […] mown, that is determined long since, by long and woeful experience, its beyond consideration, keep thy spirit ever in that temper, and thou wilt keep […] undoubted evidence of the sound work of contrition with thee.
God wil allow none, I can bear none, no not the sting of the least sin, when God wil let it in, nor you neither when once the Lord wil pursue you with the least expression of his displeasure, I cannot have any sin seem it never so smal, but I must under the power of al, nor ever have any possibility of any good. As Ruth to