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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
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And hence, though there be not the next passive power in a soul possessed with sin to receive the things of God, because the soul is wholly possessed with corruption, & so becomes wholly indisposed thereunto. It being impossible that Two Contraries should be in the same subject at the same time; that the body distempered with unnatural heats should receive a natural and moderate temper at the same time cannot be, yet remove the unnatural, and the body is capable of the natural. Hence it is the soul hath ever in it a remote power to partake of Grace. ⟨p. 374⟩As the Soul is ever seeking of a better, but because it cannot meet with it, it is unsatisfied, which shows it was made for a better.
And hence, though there be not the next passive power in a soul possessed with sin to receive the things of God, because the soul is wholly possessed with corruption, & so becomes wholly indisposed thereunto. It being impossible that Two Contraries should be in the same subject at the same time; that the body distempered with unnatural heats should receive a natural and moderate temper at the same time cannot be, yet remove the unnatural, and the body is capable of the natural. Hence it is the soul hath ever in it a remote power to partake of Grace. ⟨p. 374⟩As the Soul is ever seeking of a better, but because it cannot meet with it, it is unsatisfied, which shews it was made for a better.
Which makes me that I cannot yet see, Why there is any need to fly to the Obed ential power, which men marvellous Judicious, betake themselves to in this Dispute. When a Creature hath not a capability in its kind and nature to entertain such an impression further than it yields to the Almighty hand of God to make it what he will, As Matt. 3. 9. God is able of stones to raise up Children unto Abraham: Stones will yield to God to make them Children. But under favour I conceive that is not here needful, That God should make a new Faculty, or give another natural power than before, as he must do, if he make Bread or Children of stones.