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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.
The Second Ground of mistake in our Application,§2 When out of common illumination set up in the mind, ⟨p. 90⟩terror and astonishment let in upon the […], together with notice and conviction, it's only in Christ that must and can do us good. Out of these common insightnings, and legal terrors, the soul is stirred (out of a natural […] to procure it's own safety) to catch at that comfort and supply, whereby it may succour and relieve it self out of these pressures which are too heavy for it.
The Second Ground of mistake in our Application,§2 When out of common illumination set up in the mind, ⟨p. 90⟩terror and astonishment let in upon the 〈…〉, together with notice and conviction, it's only in Christ that must and can do us good. Out of these common insightnings, and legal terrors, the soul is stirred (out of a natural 〈…〉 to procure it's own safety) to catch at that comfort and supply, whereby it may succor and releeve it self out of these pressures which are too heavy for it.
Now as long as those fears and the noise of those direful threatenings of the Lord continue in the view of the soul, and as long as it doth not discern its own falseness in this imagined and self-deceiving application, out of self love to self ends, all that while in a blind kind of boldness it may pretend to hang upon Christ and free mercy.
Now as long as those fears and the noyse of those direful threatnings of the Lord continue in the view of the soul, and as long as it doth not discern its own falsness in this imagined and self-deceiving application, out of self love to self ends, all that while in a blind kind of boldness it may pretend to hang upon Christ and free mercy.