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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.
Its sufficient to save all if they Believe; and […] ⟨p. 63⟩[…] to be the meaning of that phrase which is […] amongst judicious writers, That if God had […], and Christ intended to save many […] more, he needed not nor in truth should have […] any other or any more punishment: so […] he must have suffered for the substance of the […] and second death to save one sinner; and no […] he needed to have suffered if he should save all […] World, or another World of Men. The ground […] is this, Because our Saviour being the head the second Covenant as Adam of the first, a […] Person in the room of all such whose persons he […]; His merits, the very same individual […], death and obedience are applied and do […] appertain unto all, as Paul had all, so Adam, […], Noah, had all, and the same death and […] belongs to any other Believer as well as to […]. For as Adams actual sin was equally imputed […] all, his original equally conveyed: So Christs […] and righteousness to all His. Adam must […] sin before he can condemn one, and if […] it condemns many thousands as well as one. Christ dies to save one, and no more to save […] thousands. For the sufficiency of our […] […] must be […] as we do the sufficiency of […] cause, which is ever considered according to […] end at which it looks, and for which it […], […] that it doth not exceed: it is not to be attended […] to the thing in which it doth appear: […] end of our Saviours sufferings and merits was save his seed, and such for which he had […] and should believe whether never so many never so few, but for all that come within that […]. As a full tide or stream is sufficient […] […] all Vessels that come upon it & yet not […] to carry one Vessel that is not […]: So here: ⟨p. 64⟩The Ocean of Gods love and Sea of Redemption […] Christ is sufficient to carry and convey all that […] unto eternal Salvation, but not sufficient […] save one that doth not Believe. And therefore […] any Orthodox Divine the meaning of this […] Sufficient for all Is the sufficiency of Christs […] in the room of all? Is the sufficiency of […] death intended and performed for the spiritual […] of all? they will all renounce both the senses: […] what reason they will put upon these words […] than that I have now expressed, I cannot tell:
Its sufficient to save al if they Beleeve; and 〈…〉