A44342:2283
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.
2 He is tender and easy to be convinced | 399 3 He loathes himself for his sins. | 404 4 He fears all fin, and provocations thereunto. | 406 5 He delights most in those means that discover and remove corruptions | 407 6 He is restlessly importunate in seeking Christ and mercy. | 411 Reasons four: Because | 1 Such a sorrow for sin, is only true in Gods account | 414 2 Without this, the heart can never be separated from fin | 415 3 By this the resistance of the heart against Christ, is removed. | 416 4 Without this, he cannot receive Christ. | ibid. Uses four, hence. | 1 Humiliation for the want of this saving sorrow. | ibid. Five sorts want it. | 1 The heedless Professor | 417 2 The treacherous […] | 419 3 The self-conceited Pharisee | 423 4 The complaining […] | 425 5 The discouraged Hypocrite. | 427 2 Terror to […] sinners. As | 428 1 Secure sinners that never were […] to […] and feel their sins | 429 1 Such are out of the way of God | 431 2 So continuing, God hath appointed no good ⟨image 576⟩for them. | 432 3 Christ came not to save such | 434 2 Relapsed sinners, who have been awakened to see and feel their sins, but have fallen back again, and their hearts grown harder than before. | ibid. 1 It is suspicious the day of Grace is past with such a one | 436 2 Their Judgment hastens | 438 3 Comfort | ibid. 1 To broken-hearted sinners themselves, their sorrows are not to death, but in the way to deliver from death, and so to bring unto life | 439 2 To their friends and well-wishers: they are now, and were never before in the way of mercy | 444 4 Exhortation: Labour for this saving sorrow of Contrition | 447 1 Do not tug with the resistance of thy heart by thine own power | 449 2 Do not fear the terror of the Truth so as to step aside from under it, but think of the goodness of it. | 450 3 Possess thy soul with the ticklishness and danger of miscarrying in this work. | 451
2 He is tender and easie to be convinced | 399 3 He loaths himself for his sins. | 404 4 He fears all fin, and provocations thereunto. | 406 5 He delights most in those means that discover and remove corruptions | 407 6 He is restlesly importunate in seeking Christ and mercy. | 411 Reasons four: Because | 1 Such a sorrow for sin, is only true in Gods account | 414 2 Without this, the heart can never be separated from fin | 415 3 By this the resistance of the heart against Christ, is removed. | 416 4 Without this, he cannot receive Christ. | ibid. Uses four, hence. | 1 Humiliation for the want of this saving sorrow. | ibid. Five sorts want it. | 1 The heedless Professor | 417 2 The treacherous | 419 3 The self-conceited Pharisee | 423 4 The complaining | 425 5 The discouraged Hypocrite. | 427 2 Terror to sinners. As | 428 1 Secure sinners that never were to and feel their sins | 429 1 Such are out of the way of God | 431 2 So continuing, God hath appointed no good