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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
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. 10. Sorrow for sin rightly set on, pierceth the heart of the sinner through, that is rightly affected therewith. | 358 For Explication, four Things: | 362 1 The Manner how Sorrow for […] […] on the soul. | 363 1 Either successively, or by degrees in some | ibid. 1 The evil and danger of his sin, is […] in the general | ibid. 2 He is surprised and pursued with fear | 364 3 The Curses and Punishments of sin are fastened upon him | 366 4 He is made to feel the evil of sin […] sin, and that as his greatest evil | 368 2 Or suddenly and throughly […] once in some others | 372 ⟨image 575⟩3 Or secretly and insensibly in others. | 374 1 Some are Sanctified in the Womb, | 375 2 Some wrought upon in Child-hood | ibid. 3 Some under good Education, Counsels, Means, are gradually, yet really wrought upon. | ibid. Cautions here. | 1 Though the manner and measure of Contrition differ in most, yet the substance of the Work is the same in all. | ibid. 2 Though some may not know the time, yet every one should, and if gracious, can give evidence of the Work wrought | 360 3 It's a safe way often to review, and to act over the first workings of Contrition. | 377 For | 1 A wound here is never recovered | 378 2 Clear this, and clear all. | ibid. 2 How this Sorrow comes to be set on, and the soul made to feel sin its greatest evil | 379 1 Sin is cross to the Nature of the soul as such. | 380 2 If the evil of sin be discovered to the Nature of the soul, it may be made sensible thereof. | 382 3 While the soul is fully and only possessed with sin, it cannot feel the evil of it. | ibid. 4 The Spirit countermands the Authority of sin. | 383 5 Christ by the virtue of his death, puts an end to the Commission of sin. | 384 3 How far the soul is active in Contrition. | 385 1 There is no power in man to remove the resistance of his heart against God and Grace. | 385 2 The Lord must put a Spiritual power into the will before it can put forth an act for removing this resistance. | 386 3 The influence of this spiritual power, is not by a gracious habit, but by the motion of the spirit ⟨image 576⟩upon the soul | 388 4 In removing this resistance, the will is a mere Patient. | […] 5 This resistance being removed, the will consents to a divorce between it self and sin | 393 4 The behaviour of the heart under this work | 396 1 The contrite sinner hath the loath somness of fin ever in sight | ibid.