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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
The Application of Redemption, by the effectual work of the Word an… › Book 2
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 direct the hearts of distressed and […] 1sinners, how to demean themselves in the work […] Application for their own succour and relief; look […] to this purchas and blood of Christ if ever you […] have the work go forward.
To direct the hearts of distressed and 〈…〉 1sinners, how to demean themselves in the work 〈…〉 Application for their own succour and relief; look 〈…〉 to this purchas and blood of Christ if ever you 〈…〉 have the work goe forward.
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When some times the means of Grace are […] and leave some sad impressions and remembrances […] their own conditions upon them, what they are […] what they should be how far short they fail of […] which the Lord requires, the rule and their […] Comforts may justly call for at their hands; […] their consciences are struggling within them, […] present them with Direful apprehensions of the […] of their sins and the punishments which they […] deserved; when they feel the Lord also striving […] them by the Convictions of his spirit, and the […] expression of his heavy Displeasure by reason of the sins, and yet are at a stall and a stand in their […] spirits, they can make no work of it, forward […] cannot go, and backward they dare not go, […] they have that cannot repent, they cannot part […] their sins, nor give way and welcome to the […] tie of the truth that might work upon them, nor […] power of the promises of the gospel which might […] their souls to the Lord Jesus: and here the […] may stand long. And it's hard but one time or […] God meets with every man that lives under the […] there are many knocks that men have in their […] that all the town knows not of: I must not do […] nor be thus, I must either be another man or a […] man, and then the man is at a set backward he […] not forward he will not. What will you do now O Look to the power of the blood and purchase […] Christ that is the effectual means to attain this […] it never fails to bring application with it as suits […]