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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 8
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.
Before I come to handle this Point, this I would Premise by way of Preface, That I purpose to handle both these together; both, plucking from Corruption and Drawing to Believe, for they are both performed by the same Action, or Motion; and therefore its most fit as they be in Nature together, so we should discover them together. For as it is in Bodily things that are obvious to our eye and […], he that plucks two things asunder which were ⟨p. 350⟩glued, by the same motion at the same instant […] he plucks the one from the other, he plucks […] brings the one nearer to himself. So here, by […] same stroke, and at the same time the Lord is […] to pluck the soul from sin unto which it was […], he brings it nearer to himself, and it is made […] for himself, that so it may be united unto his […] And these Two are required before a man can receive that Grace that he stands in need of. As in part out of joint that is possessed of many […] humours, or broken splinters of bones, which […] the temper, and hinder the joint from his right work and returning to his right place for a through Cure the noisomeness of the former is to be removed […] would hinder the part from jointing and […] to its right place, and this cannot be done but with […] kind of Violence, which is now our Point to be Opened and Confirmed. For our more orderly proceeding, because the path is not beaten by any pregnant and plain […], we shall desire to […] things with as much Evidence as we can, and therefore we shall enquire,
Before I come to handle this Point, this I would Premise by way of Preface, That I purpose to handle both these together; both, plucking from Corruption and Drawing to Beleeve, for they are both performed by the same Action, or Motion; and therefore its most fit as they be in Nature together, so we should discover them together. For as it is in Bodily things that are obvious to our eye and 〈…〉, he that plucks two things asunder which were ⟨p. 350⟩glued, by the same motion at the same instant 〈…〉 he plucks the one from the other, he plucks 〈…〉 brings the one neerer to himself. So here, by 〈…〉 same stroak, and at the same time the Lord is 〈…〉 to pluck the soul from sin unto which it was , he brings it neerer to himself, and it is made for himself, that so it may be united unto his And these Two are required before a man can receive that Grace that he stands in need of. As in part out of joynt that is possessed of many humors, or broken splinters of bones, which the temper, and hinder the joynt from his right work and returning to his right place for a through Cure the noysomness of the former is to be removed would hinder the part from joynting and to its right place, and this cannot be done but with kind of Violence, which is now our Point to be Opened and Confirmed. For our more orderly proceeding, because the path is not beaten by any pregnant and plain , we shal desire to things with as much Evidence as we can, and therefore we shal enquire,