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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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When they had taken words, and desired the Lord to take away their iniquity, the proof of their sorrow and repentance is showed in that profession of theirs, Ashur shall not save us, nor will we go down to Egypt, nor will we say to the works of our hands, ye are our Gods; these were their special sins and their protestation is bent in a peculiar manner to abandon them for ever; Those also who were convinced of their sinful departings from God by their curious arts, Acts. 19. 19. To show […] detestation of their sins, they came all as one man, and were all of one mind; they burn their books in the view of all the people, before all men that the memory of such evils might be abhorred, and the very instruments which had been abused to the practice of them might be removed from the face of the Earth, a […] heart that makes a true […], he is said in phrase of scripture to speak and judg as God doth of sin, and to […] the same sentence […] it; Now Gods mind is, and the conclusion he hath set down is this, thou shalt blot out the memory of them from under heaven, and so would a broken heart do with his distempers.
When they had taken words, and desired the Lord to take away their iniquitie, the proof of their sorrow and repentance is shewed in that profession of theirs, Ashur shal not save us, nor wil we go down to Egipt, nor wil we say to the works of our hands, ye are our Gods; these were their special sins and their protestation is bent in a peculiar manner to abandon them for ever; Those also who were convinced of their sinful departings from God by their curious arts, Acts. 19. 19. To shew 〈…〉 detestation of their sins, they came al as one man, and were al of one mind; they burn their books in the view of al the people, before al men that the memory of such evils might be abhorred, and the very instruments which had been abused to the practice of them might be removed from the face of the Earth, a 〈…〉 heart that makes a true 〈…〉, he is said in phrase of scripture to speak and judg as God doth of sin, and to 〈…〉 the same sentence 〈…〉 it; Now Gods mind is, and the conclusion he hath set down is this, thou shalt blot out the memory of them from under heaven, and so would a broken heart do with his distempers.