A44342:280
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.
If every Work of Grace, or the truth of a gracious1 qualification be witnessed by the Spirit, and is lastly resolved thereinto, So that I Believe the work of Grace in me to be true, because the Spirit witnesseth it, then I must have an absolute ground to Believe the Spirit.
If every Work of Grace, or the truth of a gracious1 qualification be witnessed by the Spirit, and is lastly resolved therinto, So that I Beleeve the work of Grace in me to be true, because the Spirit witnesseth it, then I must have an absolute ground to Beleeve the Spirit.
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I will open this Phrase: [the witness of the Spirit1 on an absolute ground] Either its meant […] the witness of the Spirit is attended without any respect to a work that is witnessed, then its false and absurd, that I should discern the witness of the Spirit without any respect to the thing witnessed […] made known to me by it: for (as hath been […] before) witness and the thing witnessed go both together.
I wil open this Phrase: [the witness of the Spirit1 on an absolute ground] Either its meant 〈…〉 the witness of the Spirit is attended without any respect to a work that is witnessed, then its false and absurd, that I should discern the witness of the Spirit without any respect to the thing witnessed 〈…〉 made known to me by it: for (as hath been before) witness and the thing witnessed go both together.