A44342:243
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.
When the Spirit doth Evidence my Justification1 or Salvation out of the Word, it doth it one or these Two ways; Either by the Application of some general Promise in which each Particular, and so myself as a particular am included; Or […] there […] some special Word appointed, appropriated to me alone, and is spoken to none but me; as Isa. 45. […]. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus, &c. None was here intended but Cyrus. This second, […] a Familistical Dream, and forceth men to Revelations without the Word; because there is no such expression to be found in the Word, […] therefore sober-minded men who have their senses about them dare not entertain it, perceiving indeed (as the […] is) that such a Conceit is little better than a Frenzy: The first way then of Evidencing must needs be taken. Whence I Reason,
When the Spirit doth Evidence my Justification1 or Salvation out of the Word, it doth it one or these Two wayes; Either by the Application of some general Promise in which each Particular, and so myself as a particular am included; Or 〈…〉 there 〈…〉 some special Word appointed, appropriated to me alone, and is spoken to none but me; as Isa. 45. 〈…〉. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus, &c. None was here intended but Cyrus. This second, 〈…〉 a Familistical Dream, and forceth men to Revelations without the Word; because there is no such expression to be found in the Word, 〈…〉 therefore sober-minded men who have their senses about them dare not entertain it, perceiving indeed (as the 〈…〉 is) that such a Conceit is little better than a Frenzy: The first way then of Evidencing must needs be taken. Whence I Reason,
- 1Argu. 3.