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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.
Hence those feeble Objections fall to the ground, and are wiped away with a wet finger.
If there be any saving Preparation before the infusion1 of Faith, then the soul brings forth good fruit, and is a good tree without Faith: And Secondly, ⟨p. 151⟩then there is something which pleaseth God, and then the soul pleaseth God without Faith.
If there be any saving Preparation before the infusion1 of Faith, then the soul brings forth good fruit, and is a good tree without Faith: And Secondly, ⟨p. 151⟩then there is somthing which pleaseth God, and then the soul pleaseth God without Faith.
- 1Object.
The Answer is easy, and at hand: These saving1 Preparations are no acts of mine, therefore not my fruit, nor can I be said to do any thing to please God by them, because they are […] in me, not by me, and the soul may have a good work wrought upon it, and be the receiver of it though not the Author of it; but as they come from the Spirit of God who is holy and blessed, so are they good fruits, and truly pleasing to God.