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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 like place you have John, 6. 44. Uttered §2and expressed upon the same ground and occasion, and tending to the same end: When the Pharisees despised the Person and quarrelled with the Word of our Saviour Christ, Is not this Jesus the Son of Joseph whose Father and Mother we know, how is it that he saith I came down from Heaven? vers. 42. That which they saw not, understood not, that they would not entertain; our Saviour shows the reason of this wretched rebellion of heart, No man can come to me unless the Father which hath sent me draw him, unless the Father who hath called our Saviour, and committed the great Work of Salvation to him, and sent him to that purpose, by a holy constraint draw the rebellious […] out of himself to Christ, he will not he cannot come unto him; coming is Believing; drawing is Preparing; when God the Father lets in his heavy displeasure into the soul of a sinner to force him to seek out to Christ for present relief, there is else no way but perishing, this is that that causes him to go out to Christ. It is hence plain.
The like place you have John, 6. 44. Uttered §2and expressed upon the same ground and occasion, and tending to the same end: When the Pharisees despised the Person and quarrelled with the Word of our Savior Christ, Is not this Jesus the Son of Joseph whose Father and Mother we know, how is it that he saith I came down from Heaven? vers. 42. That which they saw not, understood not, that they would not entertain; our Savior shews the reason of this wretched rebellion of heart, No man can come to me unless the Father which hath sent me draw him, unless the Father who hath called our Savior, and committed the great Work of Salvation to him, and sent him to that purpose, by a holy constraint draw the rebellious 〈…〉 out of himself to Christ, he will not he cannot come unto him; comming is Beleeving; drawing is Preparing; when God the Father lets in his heavy displeasure into the soul of a sinner to force him to seek out to Christ for present relief, there is else no way but perrishing, this is that that causes him to go out to Christ. It is hence plain.