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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.
If taken from the sensuality of the Soul of every1 man naturally, which is so suitable to the nature of […], that it tastes nothing but that which […] their […], and therefore they will not believe there is any thing there to distaste. A sinful heart meets with temptations, they do fit and suit one with […], and because the soul takes content in sin, it cannot believe that there is any thing else there, but what it now finds: nay, sometimes though the judgment is informed, and Conscience convinced these […] your sins, and these will be your ruin; the […] heart says, It is false; I taste no such matter: As it is in a distempered body when the stomach is […] with noisome humours, because the bitterest […] seem sweet to the raste so distempered; the Physician cannot persuade, they cannot believe that […] are bitter. So it is with a distempered heart which tastes nothing but its own lusts and humours, which are so incorporated into it, and […] with it, that let all Ministers, and Reasons, say what […] can to the contrary; say they, I believe it not; […] taste it not; Its the best life in the world to follow […] own mind, to have my own will, and to satisfy […] own lusts: Prov. 10. 23. It is a sport to a fool […] do […]: No pastime is so pleasing to him, as ⟨p. 294⟩to suit the carnal disposition of his heart in his sinful ways: but he's a fool for it, that is, A […] man.
If taken from the sensuallity of the Soul of every1 man naturally, which is so suitable to the nature of 〈…〉, that it tasts nothing but that which 〈…〉 their 〈…〉, and therefore they will not beleeve there is any thing there to distaste. A sinful heart meets with temptations, they do fit and suit one with 〈…〉, and because the soul takes content in sin, it cannot beleeve that there is any thing else there, but what it now finds: nay, somtimes though the judgment is informed, and Conscience convinced these your sins, and these will be your ruine; the heart saies, It is false; I taste no such matter: As it is in a distempered body when the stomach is with noysom humors, because the bitterest seem sweet to the raste so distempered; the Physitian cannot perswade, they cannot beleeve that are bitter. So it is with a distempered heart which tasts nothing but its own lusts and humors, which are so incorporated into it, and with it, that let all Ministers, and Reasons, say what can to the contrary; say they, I beleeve it not; taste it not; Its the best life in the world to follow own mind, to have my own will, and to satisfie own lusts: