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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.
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First of those who through the hardness of their §1hearts by their constant custom and continuance in their sin are beyond the sense of it or shame for it; whose faces are settled, and their consciences seared with a hot iron, so that there is no sting at all or check that […] them, but […] a seared part is without sense or feeling, they practice their wretchedness, and profess it, are convinced of it and go away not touched, nor troubled with it, shrink not retire not with any sense of fear or shame, for what they have done; such are never like to see the filth of their sins, before they see them by the flames of the fierceness of Gods wrath in the fire of hell, of this hellish temper were those forlorn creatures Jer. 8. 6. I hearkened and heard but no man repented him saying what have I done? they take not their sins into consideration, nor attend the danger but every man turned to his own course as the horse rusheth into the battle, nothing stops them or affrights them, v. 12. were they ashamed when they committed abomination ⟨p. 652⟩nay they were not at all ashamed, neither could they be ashamed, their minds were wholly […], they did not see the vileness of their sins, and their hearts hardened, they could not be sensible of them, so the Prophet Isa. complains, chap. 3. 9. they declare […] sin as Sodom, they commit, evil openly and they are bold and brazen-faced, to persist in what they do commit, they sear not who know it and they shame not to own it, I knew saith the Lord, thy brow was brass, and thy neck like an iron sinew, the heart buckles not, its an iron sinew the face blusheth […], its brass, harlot-like.
First of those who through the hardness of their §1hearts by their constant custome and continuance in their sin are beyond the sence of it or shame for it; whose faces are settled, and their consciences seared with a hot iron, so that there is no sting at al or check that 〈…〉 them, but 〈…〉 a seared part is without sence or feeling, they practice their wret chedness, and profess it, are convinced of it and go away not touched, nor troubled with it, shrink not retire not with any sence of fear or shame, for what they have done; such are never like to see the filth of their sins, before they see them by the flames of the fierceness of Gods wrath in the fire of hell, of this helish temper were those forlorn creatures