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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.
As it must be free so it must be full: it comes from the §2bottom & brings out all before it; he doth […] content himself to maintain the practice or […] that […] scandalous and wicked, but lays open & […] […] the bitter root of those base distempers, out of which those evils were brooded and brought […]; they are the cause of all, and worse […] […] together with those by ends and base […], and those […] a […] that […] ed the […] […] from the […] […] […] […] Lord, what ever aggravating circumstances hath any weight in ⟨p. 637⟩the apprehension of the soul, it sets […] all; the scandal will apparently argue these, and a wise […] christian will […] all these in their working, and a sincere heart desires to take most shame […] these, and therefore is full in the confession, so David goes to the root of those […] miscarriages, even […] sin, and his accursed contrivements to give content to his lusts, and therefore he complains of that, Psal. 51. 3. 4. thou lovest truth in the inward parts, and the truth I have despised and opposed; This is to be attended as another thing in the comparison, to pour out the heart like water in acknowledgements, there is nothing that remains behind, as there is in oil and those kind of things that be of a more tenacious disposition. This was eminent in the acknowledgement of the holy Apostle, 1 Tim. 1. 13. I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious, but I did it ignorantly through unbelief, not to lessen his evil, but that he might look to the bottom of it. A true contrite […] deals with these hid treasures of evil, as […] did with the treasures of his house to the Babylonish […], Isa. 39. 4. then said Isaiah, what […] they […]? […] answered, all that […] in my house, there is nothing in […] treasures that I have not showed them; so it […] […] a simple hearted convert, he will turn the inside of his heart outward, there will be nothing amongst the hid treasures of iniquity, when he is called to confession, that he will not nakedly present […] God and the world, and that without stickage, without demurs and […], he will not cut off his […] by […] as though his heart […], for what he had […], but […] open the floodgate to the full, that he may leave nothing behind that he may fully and plainly see the bottom;