A44342:2272
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.
An ignorant heart is a naughty heart | 90 Such a one 1 Is liable to all evil | 92 2 He can receive no good | ibid 3 He can expect no mercy | 93 ⟨image 569⟩2 To be hard to be convinced, is | 94 1 A dangerous sin | ibid 1 Against a mans own soul | ibid 2 Against Gods Ordinances | 95 3 Against the Spirit of God | ibid 2 A dreadful Curse | 97 1 It makes way for Satan | ibid 2 God delivers up such a one to Satan | ibid 3 He will deal no more with him | ibid 4 Such a one is every day ripening for ruin | 98 3 See the reason why men of deepest understanding are hardliest brought to brokenness of heart, because so hardly brought to see their sins | ibid 4 Trial | 101 1 Whether we have been brought to see sin clearly. Such a one will not, dare not carelessly adventure upon sin | ibid 2 Whether we have seen sin convictingly | 105 Four Evidences of persons not convinced of sin | ibid 1 When a man is unwilling to attend that Truth that would discover […] sins | 105 2 When he […] to gain-saying when he cannot avoid the light | 107 3 When he is restless to raise quarrels against the determination of the Truth | 109 4 When he sets himself against the Truth | 110 5 Exhortation to get this true […] of sin | 111 The Means are six, | 1 Labour to see the excellency of the holiness of the Lord and his Word | 114 2 When the Lord lets in any light by his Word, […] Conscience attend both | 117 3 Take off, and cast away all cavils and shifts which […] the work of […] | ibid Shifts and Excuses for sin referred to three Heads ⟨image 570⟩1 To lighten the evil of sin | ibid 1 By the commonness of it | ibid Answ. This shows | 1 The sin is the more […] | 120 2 Thy Curse more dreadful | ibid 3 Thy self destitute of Grace | 121 2 By the Naturalness of it | 122 Answ. Hence it appears | 1 Thou hast no Grace | 122 2 Thy Disease is incurable | 223 3 Thy person is abhorred of the Lord | 124 3 By Example and Companionship in sin | 125 Answ. Hereby thou dost | 1 Prefer men before God | 126 2 Encourage the wicked | 128 3 Thou shalt be damned as well as they | 129 4 By strength of provocations | 131 Answ. Whereas | 1 Though Nature cannot hold out, yet Grace oan | 132 2 This is unreasonable in thee | 133 3 It's dishonourable to God | ibid 5 By forgetfulness | 134 Answ. This argues thou hast | 1 No love to Gods […] | 137 2 A slight esteem of them | 138 3 An Atheistical heart | 139 6 By their straights | ibid Answ.