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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.
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.
How often and ordinary is it to every mans experience to cry out of pride and […], carnal confidence that is in their […], and that truly and justly, the stumps of that Dagon remains, the body of death yet continues, those lustings of the old man, but bring it home to their own doors, let it concern them in their […] occasions, in any controversy between man and man, where the fault is to be found, and the blame to be laid, sin to be confessed, that these distempers are to be attached in their hands, they will do any thing against Arguments and the evidence of Reason, but nothing against their sins; such are they, John, 6. 60. That sought Christ for […], &c. If Christ will be their Cook, he shall be their King. But if they press them beyond their pace, and discover their falseness, and how far short they fall of the Spiritual work of Faith in Christ, they fall out […]; It's a hard saying, who can hear it? ⟨p. 700⟩And those Dissemblers, Jer. 43. 2. when the Prophet did but cross them in their courses, would have plucked the carnal corrupt desires from their heart; they fly in his face, and profess they will die in the quarrel, they hate not their sin, but the Ordinance that would discover their sins, they would not destroy their sins, but the evidence of Reason that would condemn their sins.
How often and ordinary is it to every mans experience to cry out of pride and 〈…〉, carnal confidence that is in their 〈…〉, and that truly and justly, the stumps of that Dagon remains, the body of death yet continues, those lustings of the old man, but bring it home to their own doors, let it concern them in their 〈…〉 occasions, in any controversie between man and man, where the fault is to be found, and the blame to be laid, sin to be confessed, that these distempers are to be attached in their hands, they wil do any thing against Arguments and the evidence of Reason, but nothing against their sins; such are they, John, 6. 60. That sought Christ for 〈…〉, &c. If Christ wil be their Cook, he shall be their King. But if they press them beyond their pace, and discover their falsness, and how far short they fall of the Spiritual work of Faith in Christ, they fall out ; It's a hard saying, who can hear it?