A44342:413
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.
Secondly, when you have made sure your Evidence, then keep it sure, maintain it and keep it by you for ever, let not Satan, nor Temptations, […] Corruptions, nor Discouragements, nor carnal reason, take away your Evidence from you, but that you may have them to use when you have need of them.
Secondly, when you have made sure your Evidence, then keep it sure, maintain it and keep it by you for ever, let not Satan, nor Temptations, 〈…〉 Corruptions, nor Discouragements, nor carnal reason, take away your Evidence from you, but that you may have them to use when you have need of them.
[…] is such a Childish heedlessness that a man should ever be at a loss for his Spiritual estate; As though one should live in his Possessions, and if he go but a mile out of the Town, and the day grow soggy, he cannot tell where he is though he be upon his own ground; when a man should be able to […] and find his Evidences at midnight, as Paul 2 Tim. 1. 12. I know whom I have trusted, so Job when it was […] with him in his Temptations and Desertions he could then say, Job 19. 25. I know that my Redeemer liveth, He is a Redeemer and he is mine, and though I am a dying man, yet He lives. And as a good woman said when Satan troubled her house, I was here ⟨p. 109⟩[…] the Devil came, I had possession first, and I […] be here when he is gone; So a Christian should […], Christ […] put me into possession of all Saving […], and therefore though the Devil come and […] me […] his I emptations, yet he shall not put me […], I will hold my Evidence and keep my possession […] with standing all.
〈…〉 is such a Childish heedlesness that a man should ever be at a loss for his Spiritual estate; As though one should live in his Possessions, and if he go but a mile out of the Town, and the day grow soggie, he cannot tel where he is though he be upon his own ground; when a man should be able to and sind his Evidences at midnight, as Paul