A44342:379
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.
2 How this good is made ours.
For the manner and order of putting us into […] of all this good it will appear in Four Particulars.
For the manner and order of putting us into 〈…〉 of all this good it will appear in Four Particulars.
The Soul is made capable of all that Spiritual good §1and those Precious blessings which […] to […]; […] is and must be first room made for the […] of these or else there is no Possibility to […] of these, a man cannot be in heaven and hell at […] happy and miserable at the same time, be […] or that which opposeth and destroys this good […] yet share […]. First then the Lord Christ makes the Soul Capable, As in all Corporations who have their Privileges and Immunities by Charter […] to certain persons under such terms and conditions, as that he must be bound prentice, and serve […] long, he that comes not under such conditions he is not capable of such privileges, so here: John. 3. 27. No man can receive any thing except it be given him from […], that is not only the thing but the receiving of it must be given unto him; Math. 13. 11. To you it is given to know the Mysteries of the kingdom, but to others it was not so, for in hearing they should bear and not Perceive, seeing they should See and not understand their eyes were blinded and their hearts were hardened, and so they were uncapable of any good,