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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.
A type of this we may […] ⟨p. 331⟩in the Israelites when their own hearts could tell them, and their own experience could testify, and that unto their own sense, it was the greatest pressure that ever they found, the […] of the wrath of Pharaoh, and that they sighed under it, and their groans went up to heaven. And yet they would return to their own ruin, and to the house of bondage: And, Would God, said they, we had died in Egypt: Egypt typified the kingdom of darkness, the state of sin and death; and Pharaoh was a type of Satan, who exerciseth the fierceness of his fury upon the souls of those that are under his power: sometimes men will cry unto the Lord by reason of the hard usage they find from Sin and Satan, yet when God comes by his Word and the Counsels of his Servants to pluck them out of their sins, and out of their bondage, they cannot endure that, they will rather return again unto, and lie down under the bondage of sin and Satan, than be delivered from it.
A type of this we may 〈…〉 ⟨p. 331⟩in the Israelites when their own hearts could tel them, and their own experience could testifie, and that unto their own sense, it was the greatest pressure that ever they found, the 〈…〉 of the wrath of Pharoah, and that they sighed under it, and their groans went up to heaven. And yet they would return to their own ruine, and to the house of bondage: And, Would God, said they, we had died in Aegypt: Aegipt typifyed the kingdom of darkness, the state of sin and death; and Pharoah was a type of Satan, who exerciseth the fierceness of his fury upon the souls of those that are under his power: somtimes men wil cry unto the Lord by reason of the hard usage they find from Sin and Satan, yet when God comes by his Word and the Counsels of his Servants to pluck them out of their sins, and out of their bondage, they cannot endure that, they wil rather return again unto, and lie down under the bondage of sin and Satan, than be delivered from it.