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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
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.
The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents 1[…]: I will take away the heart of stone, and give […] an heart of flesh, &c. That is, I alone can do2 […], and I will do it for those that are the Seed of the Covenant (for still such Promises have an eye to the Covenant of the Church and the Faithful […] it, as, […] will Circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, 3&c. And by the manifestation of the Fullness and Freeness of this Mercy of mine I will work it. There ⟨p. 38⟩is an irresistible light which the Lord lets into […] mind at the first call, which makes way for Faith and is a direct act of Knowledge which turns the […] of the Soul to look to that fullness of power and […] of mercy, by which the heart is drawn to […] but the reflect act of evidence by which we are assured of what God hath done to us and for us, […] whereby we see that we do see, is after this, and implies the thing done before we see it.
The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents 1〈…〉: I will take away the heart of stone, and give 〈…〉 an heart of flesh, &c. That is, I alone can do2 〈…〉, and I will do it for those that are the Seed of the Covenant (for still such Promises have an eye to the Covenant of the Church and the Faithful 〈…〉 it, as, 〈…〉 will Circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, 3&c. And by the manifestation of the Fulness and Freeness of this Mercy of mine I will work it. There ⟨p. 38⟩