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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.
But the Spirit never Evidenceth without the Word […]. 14. 26. When the Comforter is come he will teach […] all things, and bring to your remembrance […] I have said unto you: but he will teach […], nor evidence nothing else but what Christ hath […] in his Word. If there be no Word but the Word […] a Conditional Promise by which the having of […] Privileges of Justification and Adoption is […]: Then the Spirit witnesseth without a […] if it evidence without respect to a […]. But there is no Word, but that of a […] Promise (viz. wherein the Condition is either […] or understood) wherein our Justification […] Adoption is Evidenced. Mark 16. 16. the […] […] the Gospel is clear, He that believeth shall be […]. As it is Rom. 3. 30. God is one and the same, […] the manner of Justification is one and the same, […] never justifies any but by Faith; and […] […] certain there is no Promise in the Scripture but […] it doth express or imply a Condition. Isa. 43. […]. I will blot out thy sins for my names sake; Here […] no Qualifications, you'll say, whereas if you […] but look into some Verses of the Chapter going […], as vers. 20. he speaks to his People, His […], these are said […]. 21. to be such as he had […] for himself: and vers. 22. he calls them Jacob […] Israel; that is, The Israel of God (as the Apostle […] them, Gal. 6. 16.) true believers. Hos. 14. 4. I […] love them freely; therefore here's no […] because none expressed? But mark the 1, 2, and […] verses, you shall find who those are that the Lord […] freely, such as having fallen by their iniquity, Return to the Lord, saying, Take away all iniquity, […] shall not save us, in thee the fatherless find ⟨p. 44⟩mercy: that is, Those that have such Qualifications as these, they are the Persons whom the Lord […] freely. It is impossible it should be […] Rom. 4. 23. As Abraham was justified so must we but he was justified by Faith, and therefore there […] no Promise revealing Justification or Adoption, but either it doth express or imply this condition of […].