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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 7
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2 Enmity, as we say in the abstract, made up of nothing but malice and hatred, and that in an extreme manner against the Lord, more than against any thing in the world: And if it be enquired, how that doth appear, and can be proved? The Evidence is added in the next words; It is not subject to the Law: As the heart is to the Law, so it is to the Lord; as it is to the Word of God, so it is to God himself. It wholly shakes off the Sovereignty and Authority of the Law; and it is not a pang only of a temptation that carries it, nor a push or […] of some present infirmity that overbears it, but in truth it is the very Nature of a naughty and […] […]; That which is born of the flesh is flesh, John, 3. 6. and nothing else but […], and therefore it can do nothing but oppose the Spirit, and the Law which is Spiritual; every thing will do, and in […] can do no […] but its Nature. And this denial […] only of the Act of Subjection, but the very Power of Subjection shows the height of that opposition, ⟨p. 305⟩that is in the heart against the Law, and so against […] Lord himself, for subjection is one degree lower […] obedience; it's possible for a Servant not to […] the command of his Master, and yet he may in […] and subjection submit himself to his authority, to bear what he will inflict upon him with […], though not to do what he requires of him: A Patient may be subject in silence and meekness to […] the launcings of the Chirurgeon, to cut him and so cure him when he can in no wise help […]: and yet a carnal heart will not do this, for his […] of subjection implies.
2 Enmity, as we say in the abstract, made up of nothing but malice and hatred, and that in an extream manner against the Lord, more than against any thing in the world: And if it be enquired, how that doth appear, and can be proved? The Evidence is added in the next words; It is not subject to the Law: As the heart is to the Law, so it is to the Lord; as it is to the Word of God, so it is to God himself. It wholly shakes off the Sovereignty and Authority of the Law; and it is not a pang only of a temptation that carries it, nor a push or 〈…〉 of some present infirmity that overbears it, but in truth it is the very Nature of a naughty and 〈…〉 〈…〉; That which is born of the flesh is flesh,