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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.
Object. If it be replied, Doth any man know that heart? Who knows what is in man but the spirit of man? 1 Cor. 2. 11.
Object. If it be replyed, Doth any man know that heart? Who knows what is in man but the spirit of man? 1 Cor. 2. 11.
Answ. Can the spirit of a man pry into every corner of his Conscience, and know his own condition? After he hath told what he knows, I may know it as well as himself, and sometimes better: Thus the Practice of a man discovers his Spirit; A rotten Conversation (when the constant tenure and frame of a mans course is corrupt and […]) it […] to all the world, who have wisdom to […], there is a refuse, and an […] disposition within, The fool (says the wise man, Eccles. 10. 3.) […] to every one as he […] by the way, that he is a fool. ⟨p. 273⟩After the […] hath felt the Pulse, and heard […] complaint of the Patient, what's the pain, and […] the part affected, how the fits and returns of […] distemper takes him, he knows the disease far […] than the man that feels it; it may be it's […] stone in the Reins, the inflammation of the Liver, Consumption of the Lungs, the parts are within, and […] cause of the Disease also, but it discovers it self, […] that undoubtedly many times by Symptoms: […] thus it is with the sickness of the Body, it is so […] the distempers of the soul; the Practice of a […] is as the Pulse, if that be commonly uneven, […] and irreligious, it argues, it's not the fit of a […], but even the very frame and constitution […] a corrupt and irreligious heart: When a mans […] carriage and communication leaves a noisome […], and scent, and […] of profaneness behind […], it evidently proclaims to any who have but […] Wisdom and Grace, that these dead works […] from a rotten carcass of a Body of death […]: it's, our Saviours direction and conclusion he […] as never failing,