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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.
Self-love, and Self-ease will not suffer the […] 1to hear of any thing that may disquiet or distemper and therefore […] the mind and heart with the daily fears and suspicions of terrors and discouragements that attend a good Course, that it dare not listen in the least measure to any thing that tends […] way. Hence it is there is such a noise and […] raised against the good ways of Gods Grace, and Gods […], that if ever he gives way to the power of them to have his sins revealed and […] by them, he thinks he shall never have quiet more […] and therefore in a carnal Family, if one man […] […] and careful in his course, and have got […] knocks from the Word, they cry out, Their Children are undone, and they fear to come under […] stroke of the truth, lest they should be troubled. […] the meaning of that, Psal. 36. 2. The wicked […] […] himself in his own eyes: As who should say, This is the only way you are in, you may […] quietly and comfortably, and go to heaven […] all this ado: Ay, do so, and be so, says the heart And as 2 Pet. 3. 2. They are willingly ignorant A man that is loth to rise, shuts his eyes from […] light, and stops his ears, that he may not hear […] knocks at the door; so a man that would sleep […] in the security of his natural state, he would […] suffer the certainty of Gods Judgments and the terribleness of them, to come home to his soul to awaken him out of his dead sleep.
Self-love, and Self-ease will not suffer the 〈…〉 1to hear of any thing that may disquiet or distemper and therefore 〈…〉 the mind and heart with the daily fears and suspitions of terrors and discouragements that attend a good Course, that it dare not listen in the least measure to any thing that tends 〈…〉 way. Hence it is there is such a noyse and 〈…〉 raised against the good ways of Gods Grace, and Gods 〈…〉, that if ever he gives way to the power of them to have his sins revealed and by them, he thinks he shall never have quiet more and therefore in a carnal Family, if one man and careful in his course, and have got knocks from the Word, they cry out, Their Children are undone, and they fear to come under stroak of the truth, lest they should be troubled. the meaning of that,