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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
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.
Ye stiff-necked and hard-hearted, ye have ever resisted the Spirit of God, as your Father did, so do ye.
See this unwillingness expressing it self in the several degrees of it.
A carnal heart is unwilling to make out after the §1discovery of the Truth, and like Bats, live most at ease when they have least light, fly abroad in the night: the less knowledge they have, the less trouble they find, and therefore they are willing to make no enquiry to know that they are not willing to do: Rom. 3. 11. It's one part of the description of a Natural mans condition, There is none that understands, none that seeks after God: or if they do sometimes seem to express some pains this way, to seek after the Truth, it is as a Coward pursues his enemy: he is afraid to find, and therefore keeps aloof off, not willing to take notice of that which may be troublesome, and therefore looks after that which least concerns him, for the rest, he lets it lie by; 2 Pet. 3. 3. They are willingly ignorant, content not to know, that which they will not do if they did know.
A carnal heart is unwilling to make out after the §1discovery of the Truth, and like Bats, live most at ease when they have least light, fly abroad in the night: the less knowledg they have, the less trouble they find, and therefore they are willing to make no enquiry to know that they are not willing to do: Rom. 3. 11. It's one part of the description of a Natural mans condition, There is none that understands, none that seeks after God: or if they do somtimes seem to express some pains this way, to seek after the Truth, it is as a Coward pursues his enemy: he is afraid to find, and therefore keeps aloof off, not willing to take notice of that which may be troublesom, and therefore looks after that which least concerns him, for the rest, he lets it lie by;