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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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The Spirit works upon the Soul in Preparation, to make way for gracious habits, but never inhabits the heart, makes the soul a Temple without some gracious qualification; 1 Cor. 6. 18, 19. Ye are the Temples of the holy Ghost: Christ dwells in our hearts by Faith, Eph. 3. 17. there is the Spirit inhabiting; yet it is said, The world cannot receive the Spirit, because they do not see him, nor know him, but you know him, for he dwells in you, and abides with you, John, 14. 17. yet those who are nothing for the while, but the world, the Spirit doth work upon such to call them out of the world, by turning of them from darkness to light.
The Spirit works upon the Soul in Preparation, to make way for gracious habits, but never inhabits the heart, makes the soul a Temple without some gracious qualisication; 1 Cor. 6. 18, 19. Ye are the Temples of the holy Ghost: Christ dwels in our hearts by Faith, Eph. 3. 17. there is the Spirit inhabiting; yet it is said, The world cannot receive the Spirit, because they do not see him, nor know him, but you know him, for he dwels in you, and abides with you, John, 14. 17. yet those who are nothing for the while, but the world, the Spirit doth work upon such to cal them out of the world, by turning of them from darkness to light.
The Lord Christ as the Second Adam, and the Head 1of those whom he shall bring back, and beget unto God the Father, in the virtue of his death he brings a Release from under the hand of Divine Justice, to reverse that Commission which sin and Satan had, to fasten the soul to the Creature, and so to sin, and by sin and the Creature to rule in it: For when Adam jarred and jostled against the Law, the Law was strong and hard, i. e. just; the Law and the Lord in Justice pushed Adam away from him, sin takes occasion to fall in, and by that advantage (when Divine Justice, by reason of his provocation, pushed him away) it carries him to the Creature, and the Devil by sin and the Creature challengeth Sovereignty over him: The Lord Jesus by and in the virtue of his death, suffering and satisfying Divine Justice, delivers both himself and his from the Authority of sin: God raised him from the Grave, because it was impossible be should be held by the sorrows and power of the grave, and therefore not by the power of sin and darkness,