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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.
this is as I said to […] the clew of a wretched course that he may see the end and utmost of it. So to lance the sore that the core may come out from the bottom, and then the cure will undoubtedly follow, which cannot be so attained, as long as it continues.
this is as I said to 〈…〉 the clew of a wretched course that he may see the end and utmost of it. So to lance the sore that the core may come out from the bottom, and then the cure wil undoubtedly follow, which cannot be so attayned, as long as it continues.
Sometimes persons that want boldness, and ability, cannot so fully open themselves in public always; yet the frame of their spirits and expressions will ever aim at such a thing, to the apprehension of such as have any spiritual eye salve about them because their confessions […] ever minted out of their own hearts, and the loathsomeness of such evils wherewith they are and have been loaded. But for a man that comes to confess his evil, to forget the main evil he came to confess, is such a heavy hand of God, to discover a counterfeit confession, that it would make a moral man that had but understanding about him sit down confounded, under the […] curse of Gods displeasure, and the right consideration of the […] of his heart.
Sometimes persons that want bouldness, and ability, cannot so fully open themselves in publick alwayes; yet the frame of their spirits and expressions wil ever aym at such a thing, to the apprehension of such as have any spiritual eye salve about them because their confessions 〈…〉 ever minted out of their own hearts, and the loathsomness of such evils wherewith they are and have been loaded. But for a man that comes to confess his evil, to forget the main evil he came to confess, is such a heavy hand of God, to discover a counterfeit confession, that it would make a moral man that had but understanding about him sit down confounded, under the 〈…〉 curse of Gods displeasure, and the right consideration of the of his heart.