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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.
[…] our Saviour, the Chief Master of the Assemblies, is said to […] […] […], […] […] the Scribes, Matt. 7. last. Not to tell a man a […] tale, a toothless, sapless […], so that the hearers […] […] are gone, are never stirred, never troubled for their sins, nor quickened onward in Obedience: But when the power of the […], the presence and Majesty […] the Lord […], appears in his Ordinances, they then carry […] with them and bear down all before them: […] […] […] lightning, forsakes his hold, and the […] […] is forced to give way to the Government of the King of Saints. Strong Physic either Cures or Kills, either takes away the […], or life of the […]; so it is with a spiritual and powerful Ministry, it will work one way or other, either it […] […] hardens, converts or condemns those that live […] the stroke thereof. For observe we must, […] […] Word is but an Instrument in the hand of […], who dispenseth the same […] to his good […], and the counsel of his own Will, working when, and upon whom he will, and what he will by […]. The Sword in the hand of him that wields it may as easily ⟨p. 216⟩kill as defend another, answerable to the affection of him that strikes therewith: It is so with the Word which is the Sword of the Spirit, It is the savour of life unto life, but then and to those only to whom the Lord will bless the same; and the savour of death unto death, then and unto those when such a […] is denied.
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