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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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This is a […]-stone of the truth of […] work of contrition, 1whether […] Lord have left the mighty impression of this preparative […] upon the soul of a sinner. That the league betwixt the heart and […] lusts is […], not alone […] the […], […] […] […] ⟨p. 692⟩of evil, nor yet to avoid, and go aside from the occasion that may lead to it under some present pang, but thou hast put off the love of sinning, (why blessed be God) the combination is come to naught; sorrow hath […] the knot and union betwixt thy soul and thy darling […]. This hatred breaks the knot and union fully, thou art now divorced from thy former lovers, thou fearest the approach of them, rather choosest to see the blood of them, than to enjoy the presence of them. Stay but Gods time, and be persuaded, in his best season he will take thee into the bosom of his love, which will be better than life it self to thee. Thou art in the hand of Jesus and under his charge, he that hath rescued thee from the rage of the Devils, and from the right that sin ever claimed in thee, he will never loose his labour, nor shalt thou loose thy […] and happiness2 in the issue. He hath bound the strong man the strongest of thy corruptions that heretofore have too much, and too easily prevailed with thee: had got thy affection, and the strong holds of thy heart, those strong temptations and […] by which Satan; as by so many garrison soldiers, maintained possession in thy soul; yet now this strong man is bound, his holds battered and his garrison abandoned. So that there is a spoil made of all his goods; the temptations that formerly found entertainment, they are now abhorred, his suggestions & delusions that found easy entrance & acceptance are now loathed, and thy heart set against them; the Lord Christ is now about to own thee as his proper possession, and then he will never part with thee more, thy heart trembles at the least inkling of the return of thy distempers, seeks the destruction, and would see the not being; art a weary of life merely because they live, and art resolved never to entertain terms of peace with them, though thou never seest quiet day in the world. […] the work is the Lord Christs he will own it;
This is a 〈…〉-stone of the truth of work of contrition,