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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.
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, Joh. 1. 12. To them that receive him, he gave […] to be the Sons of God: Its a staple Rule. Therefore no man is a Son before he receive Christ, therefore to make the Spirit to witness to a man […] […] is a Son of God when he hath not received Christ, would make him speak Cross to this Word of Truth.
To make the Spirit testifie a falshood, 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 〈…〉 testifie that Pardon and Adoption belongs to any 〈…〉 falls upon any subject, without respect to a 〈…〉, is to make the Spirit testifie a falshood: 〈…〉 it is to make it testifie 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,