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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.
All the Elect are justified, that's false. Or thus, […] the Elect shall be called and justified, that is no […] of Evidencing neither, for (as was showed […]) there can be no Evidence (i. e. Science and […] of Faith) of the working of the first […] before it be wrought: therefore there is no […] way but the applying of a General, including a […] to my self in particular; as, All that […] (as Abraham) are justified; but I am one […] them. This is good.
All the Elect are justified, that's false. Or thus, 〈…〉 the Elect shall be called and justified, that is no 〈…〉 of Evidencing neither, for (as was shewed 〈…〉) there can be no Evidence (i. e. Science and 〈…〉 of Faith) of the working of the first 〈…〉 before it be wrought: therefore there is no 〈…〉 way but the applying of a General, including a 〈…〉 to my self in particular; as, All that 〈…〉 (as Abraham) are justified; but I am one 〈…〉 them. This is good.
To make the Spirit testify a falsehood, and my1 […] to receive it, is unlawful: to charge untruth […] the Spirit is blasphemous; to bring my self into […] by-path, that is erroneous. But to make the […] testify that Pardon and Adoption belongs to any […] falls upon any subject, without respect to a […], is to make the Spirit testify a falsehood: […] it is to make it testify cross to a rule of Truth which the Spirit of God hath given in the Word. For the Rule of Truth is plain, Rom. 8. 30. Whom […] called, them he justified; and them, he glorified. Therefore to say the Spirit will witness to one […] […] not called, is to make him witness against […] Rule,