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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.
We are now come to these Things that are plainly expressed […] the Words: And here we shall content our selves with Two Collections, which are most plain, and suit best to our present purpose in hand.
We are now come to these Things that are plainly expressed 〈…〉 the Words: And here we shal content our selves with Two Collections, which are most plain, and suit best to our present purpose in hand.
They who are truly pierced with Godly sorrow 1for their sins are willing openly to confess them, when they are called thereunto. Or. True contrition is accompanied with confession when God calls thereunto.
- 1Doct.
So do these converts here in the place, they come here of their own accord, they do not stay till they be arrested and summoned to the court; but they readily arrest, indict, arraign and accuse themselves before Peter and the rest of the Apostles. Men and brethren you have discovered many sins and the dreadful condition of the sinners who […] guilty thereof, lo we are the men, thus and thus we have done. By us the Lord Jesus was opposed and pursued, by us he was […], railed upon and blasphemed, by us it was that he was […], and we are they that have imbrued our hands in his most precious blood: we are they that […] it and […] […], […] him, […] with him, not him, […] […]. Nay they roundly, readily, told all, this in secret we plotted against […] life and liberty, thus we consented unto those that should attempt the treason and […] […] […] […] them in their […] and […] […] proceeding, we […] they that gloried and rejoiced