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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.
And hence a man must propound so many interrogatories, ask so many questions, […] interpretations of what a […] hath said when he hath […] what he will, […] though a man should pull a confession from a man, as an untimely […], which he were not […] willing to bring into the world, and when he hath […] on what he can, he can hardly make any thing of what confession he hath made; But a heart that is burdened to […], pricked to the quick and parted from his […], his expressions come off kindly and issue naturally from him, not in a […], quaint kind of strain as though he would coin a confession, but with that freedom and readiness as though his spirit was […] into such expressions; his heart was severed from his […], ⟨p. 635⟩the passage […] plain, and he would banish them by an open confession, and therefore watchfully takes the occasion that may suit the work; Acts, 19. 19. they that used unlawful and curious arts, they brought their books and burned them in the sight of all, they were not summoned to this service by authority, they came of their own accord &c. And this was […] with Paul to take advantage by the solemnity of the place and people, to publish […] sin and shame, and to be […] it in the view of the world, no man either […] or expecting any such thing, and he freely unbosomed his heart and said more against himself than all the world could say, the […] […] you may read, Acts. 26. 9 I utterly thought I ought to […] […] things against the name of […], which thing I also did, […] up the prison, compelling them to […] and being exceeding mad […] them, &c.
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