A44342:2270
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.
DOCT. 1. Stubborn and bloody sinners may be made broken-hearted. | 20 Reasons three, taken from | 1 The infinite Mercy of God | 22 2 The infinite […] of Christs Merits | 23 3 The Almighty. Power of the Spirit | 24 Uses three, hence | 1 Matter of Admiration at the riches of Grace | 25 2 Encouragement to keep distressed sinners from despair, yet no ground of presumption | 26 3 Instruction, showing the […] nature of despair, It's | 29 1 Injurious to God | 30 2 Dangerous to the Soul | 32 Helps against Despair are two, | 1 Listen not to […] Conclusions | 34 2 Attend not our own […], but Gods Mercy⟨image 568⟩ and Power | 34
DOCT. 1. Stubborn and bloody sinners may be made broken-hearted. | 20 Reasons three, taken from | 1 The infinite Mercy of God | 22 2 The infinite 〈…〉 of Christs Merits | 23 3 The Almighty. Power of the Spirit | 24 Uses three, hence | 1 Matter of Admiration at the riches of Grace | 25 2 Encouragement to keep distressed sinners from despair, yet no ground of presumption | 26 3 Instruction, shewing the 〈…〉 nature of despair, It's | 29 1 Injurious to God | 30 2 Dangerous to the Soul | 32 Helps against Despair are two, | 1 Listen not to 〈…〉 Conclusions | 34 2 Attend not our own 〈…〉, but Gods Mercy⟨image 568⟩ and Power | 34
DOCT. 2. There must be a true sight of sin, before the heart can be broken for it | 35 For Explication, four things: | 1 How God works this sight of sin | 37 1 The Law of God discovers our sins | ibid 2 There is a new Light put into the mind | 38 3 The Spirit takes […] the Rule of darkness out of the mind | 41 4 The Spirit leaves a set upon the understanding God-ward | 42 2 How far the sinner is […] in this sight of sin | 43 1 There is an insufficiency in the Understanding to reach the right discovery of sin | 1 ibid 2 An incapability also to receive Spiritual Light. | 45 3 Christ forceth the Understanding to bear the […] of his Spirit, whereby […] | 47 1 Destroys the Sovereignty of […] Reason | 48 2 Fits it to receive the impression of Spiritual Light | 50 4 This Light received, the Understanding is acted by it, and so acts in virtue of it, and so the sinner comes truly to see his sins. | 51 3 Wherein this true sight of sin is discovered | 52 1 It is a clear sight of sin | 53 1 In regard of God, as | 54 1 It would dispossess God of his Sovereignty | 55 2 It smites at the Essence of God | 57 3 It spoils all the Works of God | 59 2 In regard of our selves, as | ibid 1 It separates […] God and […] | ibid 2 It makes us uncapable of any good | 60