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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.
With the Saints contrariwise, Their bodies are laid in the Grave as in a bed of Down, perfumed with the precious Death and Burial of the Body of Christ, the ashes thereof carefully preserved, yea, loved by the Lord: So the Apostle, Rom. 8. last. I am persuaded that neither life nor death is able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus: So that the Lord loves the very dust of the bodies of his Saints in the Grave, and receives their Souls to himself in glory, as soon as Body and Soul are parted one from another (Luke 16. 22. The Soul of Lazarus was by the Angels carried into Abraham's bosom) For at the great day of accounts we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that ⟨p. 243⟩every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether good or […], 2 Cor. 5. 10. The Sentence we see shall not […] according to that men do in Purgatory, as the Papists dream; but according to that only which they did while they had Being and Breathing in this Natural life.
With the Saints contrariwise, Their bodies are laid in the Grave as in a bed of Down, perfumed with the precious Death and Burial of the Body of Christ, the ashes thereof carefully preserved, yea, loved by the Lord: So the Apostle, Rom. 8. last. I am perswaded that neither life nor death is able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus: So that the Lord loves the very dust of the bodies of his Saints in the Grave, and receives their Souls to himself in glory, as soon as Body and Soul are parted one from another (Luke 16. 22. The Soul of Lazarus was by the Angels carried into Abrahams bosome) For at the great day of accounts we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that ⟨p. 243⟩every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether good or ,