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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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2. How this hatred discovers it self and how it may be discerned.
This hatred is attended with a continual fear of the presence and the deadly infection of sin, and so with a §1constant watch against it; or a watchful fear is a never failing work whereby this hatred […] it self, in the carriage and daily conversation of a […] sinner, the venom of sin which formerly he hath felt, the plague and vengeance which those his distempers hath brought upon him, leaves so fresh and yet so […] a remembrance of them upon his soul that the very thoughts of them affright him, but any temptation or provocation that may draw him to the […] of the like is so loathsome that the least appearance that looks that way he sees presently and shakes at it, […] it as the […] of hell, as that which will hazard the happiness of the soul and […] as present […] to him. As it is in the work of nature in the body of a man, he that hath surfeited upon some sweet meat or some pleasing potion that hath been prepared in a gilded cup, & happily suited with his palate for the present, but in issue had in reason hazarded his life, in his own sense and each mans apprehension, but that the Lord was merciful; you need not […] him with arguments, the loathing of […] stomach and the very hatred and Antipathy that nature hath against that which procured the hazard, will make him watchful and shy how he is deceived in that kind any […], the very sight of the gally-pot, the sent or ⟨p. 681⟩smell of the potion, yea the least suspicion that such a receipt is coming towards him, […] him to fear and fly, his stomach begins to turn, riseth from the […], removes out of the room, […] frame of nature begins to fail and shake with the remembrance of the […] and with the fear of the like danger; It behoves me to look what I take, it had like to have cost my life, therefore I will come there no more. So it is with a […] sinner that hath felt the poison of those pleasing distempers upon which his sensual […] hath […] it self in the days of his folly which now he hath found by woeful […] to be gal and wormwood to his Conscience, the bane of his peace, and would have been the ruin of him, and his soul before this day, but that it hath pleased the Lord to […] him for the present, and not to execute his vengeance upon him, as he hath deserved by reason of his former […];