A44342:208
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.
Though a man can have no Right to any Spiritual §3[…] in Christ without Faith, and though the […] never witnesseth this without, or before Faith; […], when Faith is there, when some gracious […] is wrought, may not, doth not the Spirit […] a mans good estate without any respect to […], or any gracious Qualification existent in the […]?
Though a man can have no Right to any Spiritual §3〈…〉 in Christ without Faith, and though the 〈…〉 never witnesseth this without, or before Faith; 〈…〉, when Faith is there, when some gracious 〈…〉 is wrought, may not, doth not the Spirit 〈…〉 a mans good estate without any respect to 〈…〉, or any gracious Qualification existent in the 〈…〉?
I Answer: So marvellous, secret, and unsearchable1 ⟨p. 34⟩are the Dispensations of the Spirit unto the Soul […] as the wind blows where it […], thou hearest […] 2sound of it, thou knowest not whence it comes […] whither it goes: So it is here; The hidden […] ousness of the manner of the Spirits work in the […] of it, is so hard to discern, that to make any approach so as to discover the way of God, and to undermine an Error entrenching thereabout, by […] of Reason, is more than ordinarily […] and therefore for our better proceeding in Answer […] this Question, I shall Endeavour to do these […] Things.