A44342:945
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.
1 The Dominion of Sin: The Lord now quells and crusheth utterly, that sovereignty and supremacy it hath formerly exercised over the sinner: So the Apostle, Rom. 6. 14. brings in this as the ground of that spiritual deliverance from the authority of our Distempers, Sin shall not have dominion over you, because you are not under the Law, but under Grace: When ever we be come under the Covenant of Grace, and the Lord Jesus the second Adam […] us and begets us to himself, as soon as we are of the seed of that Covenant, he thereby takes off that dominion unto which we were formerly subject, while we were under the Covenant of the Law broken, it did break us, and deliver us to the authority of our Distempers: This was typed by the year of Jubilee under the Old Law, when the Slave or Servant was freed from his Masters rule and claim; and therefore when our Saviour is promised as he that should bring Jacob […] unto God, and so become light and salvation to the Ends of the Earth, Isa. 49. 5. 8, 9. To be the head of the Covenant of Grace: And that which is added is marvellous strange, To establish the Earth, and to cause to inherit the desolate places.
1 The Dominion of Sin: The Lord now quels and crusheth utterly, that soveraignty and supremacy it hath formerly exercised over the sinner: So the Apostle, Rom. 6. 14. brings in this as the ground of that spiritual deliverance from the authority of our Distempers, Sin shall not have dominion over you, because you are not under the Law, but under Grace: When ever we be come under the Covenant of Grace, and the Lord Jesus the second Adam 〈…〉 us and begets us to himself, as soon as we are of the seed of that Covenant, he thereby takes off that dominion unto which we were formerly subject, while we were under the Covenant of the Law broken, it did break us, and deliver us to the authority of our Distempers: This was typed by the year of Jubile under the Old Law, when the Slave or Servant was freed from his Masters rule and claim; and therefore when our Savior is promised as he that should bring Jacob 〈…〉 unto God, and so become light and salvation to the Ends of the Earth,