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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.
So contrarily, the Wicked after Death, are […] delivered up to the tyranny and authority of […] Corruptions and there settled, and that […], in a state of rebellion, and become utterly […] of receiving any spiritual Grace, or […] any spiritual Good, but sink down in […] […] without hope of either. For those […] Graces whereby the Lord in the time of life […] their distempers and those outward […], Word and Sacraments wholesome Laws and […] Counsels and Examples which formerly […] them from many notorious outrages, are now […] away: Now the Lord plucks up the Hedge, […] pulls down the Wall, takes away all the […] Gifts of his Grace, vouchsafes not one […] of his Spirit, to strive with the Sinner any more, […] one check of Conscience to awe him, not the least […] of any Good to affect him any more; […] […] the reins in the neck of the Rebel, and […] […] loose upon him to execute the fullness of the ⟨p. 244⟩fierceness of his malice, to the uttermost; […] his rage was confined before, he could do no […] than his Commission allowed him, he had the […] of his temptations set; but now he takes full possession of the Soul after death, and hath free leave […] exercise full dominion over it, as much as he will […] can: Yea, the Lord in his severe, but […] […], lets in the Sea of all sinful […] as with a mighty slow and full tide into the […] […] heart, to carry him without all control or stay from ever enjoying either Means or Hopes of […] least expression of Gods presence, for any good […] any kind: There is no heart to pity the […] Sinner, no Friend to pray for him, no Counsel […] advise, Reproof to stop, no Exhortation to persuade any more, from the approving and […] of whatever might dishonour God. In the days […] his Life and Vanity, he was weary of all these, because they hindered him from having his full […] in the ways of wickedness; Now all these […] Means, as so many banks which kept in the swelling and boisterous rage of his accursed lusts, are all […] down; the bottomless depths of all abominations are opened; the power of all sinfulness, in all […] […] thereof, seizeth upon the Soul, and […] and prevails in it to all eternity, without lessening restraint, or alteration:
So contrarily, the Wicked after Death, are 〈…〉 delivered up to the tyranny and authority os 〈…〉 Corruptions and there settled, and that 〈…〉, in a state of rebellion, and become utterly of receiving any spiritual Grace, or any spiritual Good, but sink down in without hope of either. For those Graces whereby the Lord in the time of life their distempers and those outward , Word and Sacraments wholsome Laws and Counsels and Examples which formerly them from many notorious outrages, are now away: Now the Lord plucks up the Hedge, pulls down the VVall, takes away all the Gifts of his Grace, vouchsafes not one of his Spirit, to strive with the Sinner any more, one check of Conscience to aw him, not the least of any Good to affect him any more; the reins in the neck of the Rebel, and loose upon him to execute the fulness of the