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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
The Application of Redemption, by the effectual work of the Word an… › Book 6
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.
Gather up the Point then: If he neither see […] feel any evil in his Condition, and therefore fears no danger in it, and therefore blesseth himself in his present estate; accounting whatsoever is more required, to be foolishness, and persecutes whatsoever seems to blemish it, then he is (and can be no other than) abundantly satisfied and settled immovably in the security of his carnal estate.
Gather up the Point then: If he neither see 〈…〉 feel any evil in his Condition, and therefore fears no danger in it, and therefore blesseth himself in his present estate; accounting whatsoever is more required, to be foolishness, and persecutes whatsoever seems to blemish it, then he is (and can be no other than) abundantly satisfied and settled immovably in the security of his carnal estate.
The Reasons of it are chiefly Three.
From the Deceitfulness and Subtlety of sin which1 pretends nothing, promiseth nothing but that which is full of content to the sinner, and therefore he pleaseth himself in it for the present. As the […] hides his sting that may poison, and shows only his speckled skin that may please the eye, so it is with […], it presents nothing to the view but that which may please the flesh, either profits to enrich, or honours to advance, or pleasures to delight, either […] of the flesh, or the […] of the eyes, or the pride of life, 1 Joh. 2. 16. As the wise man speaks of the young man led aside with the harlot, that with her oiled words she […] […], and he follows her as an Ox […]