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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.
Look how the Covenant of Grace testifies a mans1 good estate, and the interest he hath to any spiritual good in Christ, so the spirit of Grace doth […] it; ⟨p. 46⟩so the Spirit of Grace, and the Covenant of […] go hand in hand; and otherwise how could it […] true, That the Gospel should be sufficient to make […] man perfect and complete in the spiritual […] of his Soul, as well as in those things, which […] mainly and merely Essential to eternal life, 2 […] 3. 16. And here is the limits and bounds of that comfort the Spirit is sent to bring, its confined […] this compass, Joh. 14. 26. I will send the […], and he shall bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you: when he comes […] a Comforter, when that is the main scope of […] Commission to make known all the grounds of Comfort to the Saints, and to let in the good of them into their Souls when he remembers them of all […] and teacheth all things appertaining thereunto, […] ads no more, but recalls what Christ hath said: Besides that testimony which is beyond the Gospel should not be tried by the Gospel, for that which […] beyond the measure, cannot be measured by it: […] Gospel is the Rule of our Faith and of our Comfort, and if this testimony was beyond the reach of the Gospel, it could never be judged by it: This would not only set open a Gap to all Delusions, but break down the banks, that the sea of all sottish Imaginations may break in upon the mind and apprehensions of a man, and carry them away with mighty violence without control.
Look how the Covenant of Grace testifies a mans1 good estate, and the interest he hath to any spiritual good in Christ, so the spirit of Grace doth 〈…〉 it; ⟨p. 46⟩fo the Spirit of Grace, and the Covenant of 〈…〉 go hand in hand; and otherwise how could it 〈…〉 true, That the Gospel should be sufficient to make 〈…〉 man perfect and compleat in the spiritual of his Soul, as well as in those things, which mainly and meerly Essential to eternal life, 2 3. 16. And here is the limits and bounds of that comfort the Spirit is sent to bring, its confined this compass,