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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.
When his accursed crew, the lusts with whom he §3[…] been in league, see that he is got out of prison […], they again set upon him to see if by any means […] can bring him to their bent, to embrace the old […] ways of ungodliness. Tush says carnal Reason, the worst is past, the danger is over, why should he slay himself with needless sorrow, and […], smoke away his days in desperate […], and make himself miserable in laying more burden upon himself than God requires, or Reason allows: If the Lord in his Providence hath […] him of his inconveniences, why should he ad […] them without need, and without profit? let him therefore refresh himself with those former […], and shake off those heavy damps, which are indeed the death of the soul, the ruin of his […], and himself also in the issue. In conclusion, the heart begins to recoil back again to the former courses to […] after those former lusts, as ancient Lovers, to ⟨p. 370⟩parley with them, to give entertainment to them, […] so to be overcome by them. So that now he is […] deeply endeared to them as ever, follows them as eagerly, and takes as much contentment in them as […] do in their ancient play fellows, and […] when they have been long parted: 'Till […] lays the last hook upon him, and rends him all in pieces. As it forewarned him of sin that it might not […] committed, and accused him for sin when it […] committed: so now it becomes an Executioner […] the final Doom and Judgment which belongs […] him; because against all means of redress he […] continues in his sin, so that now Conscience […] not present him before the Tribunal of the Lord […] trial or accusation, for that is over; but as one […] is convicted and condemned, he drags him to […], 1 John, 3. 20. If our hearts condemn […] God is greater than our hearts: Prov. 29. 1. […] that being often admonished hardens his heart, […] shall perish without Remedy; thou art the man, […] is thy condition, this will be thy condemnation, […] hast been often admonished, […] such a time, […] such a time, by a […], a Friend, a Minister, […] did thy heart rise with […] and indignation, […] not able to abide the man, nor to undergo the […] nition; therefore thou […] perish, […] there is […] Remedy: with that Conscience delivers him up […] the hands of the tormentors; take him ye […] spirits, depart from hence to thy grave, and […] thence to the place of Execution.