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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.
This universality of Redemption, makes way […] universality of Corruption: and these sensual […] deceiving men make the gate of Mercy and […] so wide, that so they find room not only […] themselves, but to carry their sins to Heaven […] them also. But such shall one day find by […] experience they befooled themselves, and fell […] of their hopes and expectations, when they […] know to their terror, that the Lord Jesus was […] so lavish of his blood as to spill it in vain, […] he should miss of his end or they of their good […] whom it was shed: though they ery never so […] knock never so hard, Lord Lord open […] […] they […] have no other answer but that, […] from […] 1know you not […] workers of iniquity. Math. 7. 23. I never prayed for you, I never dyed for you. […] is that which will sink the hearts and dash the […] of all unbelieving self deceiving Creatures: Is there ⟨p. 59⟩[…] rich Grace, plentiful Redemption, abundant […], Merits unvaluable in the Lord Jesus? True, […] that's thy misery, thou shalt see it, but never be […] partaker thereof. Thou shalt not taste of those […] dainties the Lord hath provided for his […] 2as long as thou remainest in that unbelieving […]; thy doom is set, thy sentence is past. […] 3. 18. He that believes not is condemned already, is cast in all the Coutrs of Heaven and Earth, the […] cannot the Gospel will not save thee; a body […] appeal from Justice to Mercy, but if Mercy […] him, who shall comfort, who can relieve […]? what ever he doth where ever he is the wrath God abides upon him, thou art not within the […] of Mercy nor the compass of that Redemption […] Lord hath wrought. Nay that thou mayest see […] thou art, and what to hold to; the Lord […] hath sealed up thy destruction by a solemn oath […] can never be repealed; He hath sworn he that […] believes shall never enter into his rest. Heb. 3. […]. That which God says barely he many times […], so the first Covenant Do and live, a man may […] do himself and yet live, but he that will not […], God swears (and his oath is unchangeable) […] he shall never enter into life. That a man may […] with reverence God himself cannot save a man […] never shall Believe, because he cannot deny […] and his oath. Rest thou mayest in thy vain […] in thy carnal confidence, sit down secure in […] self-pleasing humour, but thou shalt never enter to Gods rest of Pardon Peace Comfort and […]: