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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.
By way of REPROOF, It dasheth that dream of 1the wicked, and cursed imagination of carnal men who conceit, that to fall under the foot of contempt according to the desert of our evil doings, they conceive it a point of greatest disparagement and wickedness that can be imagined, and to take up […] abode in that abased condition, either by some reach of policy not to prevent such an evil; or when it doth befall, to be shiftless, as to sink under it, and not to be able to struggle out, they look at such, and leave it upon Record in their Observation, as very simplicians, such as are destitute either of wit or courage, to swallow down such indignities, and never be sick of them, these persons they note as feeble, and the […] base. A hellish delusion, directly contrary ⟨p. 648⟩to the truth here delivered, and the practice of these Converts, now truly broken-hearted with Godly sorrow for their sins, That which issues from the power and work of Gods Spirit upon the soul, it argues neither feebleness nor […] and such is this practice, and therefore it argues neither.
By way of REPROOF, It dasheth that dream of 1the wicked, and cursed imagination of carnal men who conceit, that to fal under the foot of contempt according to the desert of our evil doings, they conceive it a point of greatest dispar agement and wickedness that can be imagined, and to take up 〈…〉 abode in that abased condition, either by some reach of policy not to prevent such an evil; or when it doth befal, to be shistless, as to sink under it, and not to be able to struggle out, they look at such, and leave it upon Record in their Observation, as very simplicians, such as are destitute either of wit or courage, to swallow down such indignities, and never be sick of them, these persons they note as feeble, and the 〈…〉 base. A hellish delusion, directly contrary ⟨p. 648⟩to the truth here delivered, and the practice of these Converts, now truly broken-hearted with Godly sorrow for their sins, That which issues from the power and work of Gods Spirit upon the soul, it argues neither feebleness nor and such is this practice, and therefore it argues neither.