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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.
Again, This God doth to show his Power, even §2the Omnipotent and All-sufficient work of his […], to whom nothing is hard or impossible, who hath hardness at command, and therefore as he doth […] he will both in Heaven and Earth, Psal. 1 15. 3. […] also in the hearts of his people; when the […] and […] of the little […] […] deprive them of this favour, when the boisterous head-strong distempers of young men cannot hinder; […] […] […] […] of the aged in their cankered corruptions, cannot […] […] […] Grace and Salvation; but be they never so weak God can […]; ⟨p. 267⟩be they never so stout, God can bend, be they never so fast rooted in their rebellions, God can, and doth separate betwixt sin and their souls, and recover them: Behold, this is the Finger of the Almighty. When the Disease hath entered […] the Bowels, and rotted in the bones of the sick, the Physic then to cure, the Physician then to recover, that is skill more than ordinary by the confession of all: So here in the soul, to make the Black-more to change his hew, the Leopard his spots, to make a grey headed sinner, whose corruptions like a canker hath eaten up his heart by daily custom, to bring him to sound contrition and broken heartedness, therein the outstretched arm of the Lord is expressed in his utmost strength, My Power is made perfect in weakness, saith the Lord, 2 Cor. 12. 9. It's the perfection of Power to prevail over such difficulties. Thus of the First Part; the Second follows.
Again, This God doth to shew his Power, even §2the Omnipotent and All-sufficient work of his 〈…〉, to whom nothing is hard or impossible, who hath hardness at command, and therefore as he doth 〈…〉 he will both in Heaven and Earth, Psal. 1 15. 3. 〈…〉 also in the hearts of his people; when the 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 of the little 〈…〉 〈…〉 deprive them of this favor, when the boisterous head-strong distempers of yong men cannot hinder; of the aged in their cankered corruptions, cannot Grace and Salvation; but be they never so weak God can ;