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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.
I hat which destroys the power of sin, that offers a holy kind of violence to it. But the Lord by his […] destroys the power of sin, therefore he offers a holy kind of violence to it.
I hat which destroyes the power of sin, that offers a holy kind of violence to it. But the Lord by his 〈…〉 destroyes the power of sin, therefore he offers a holy kind of violence to it.
Hence, before we pass (for to this place this ⟨p. 383⟩Consideration is proper) we may see the difference between restraining Grace in the Reprobate and Hypocrite, and saving, and effectually converting Grace.
The act of sin only in the one is hindered; the power of sin in the other is subdued, the one curbs and confines the corrupt Nature, as a Fox in a chain, a Wolf in a grin, they have the same Nature still, but they have not the same liberty to put forth their ravenous desires and […], and therefore will do it when opportunity serves. Converting Grace severs the subtle and cruel dispositions from them […], and overcomes and conquers the cruelty of their Natures, so that as they do not, so in truth they cannot put forth such savage practices as before: The one abates the resistance that is in the heart against God, his Truth, and Ways for the while, makes a mans distempers recoil and […] themselves, and makes them not appear for the present: But this takes away the Sovereignty and prevailing power of resistance. As it is in War, when a pitched field is fought, and the Bodies of both Armies meet, each standing in the defence and […] of its own […]; but when the day is got, and the battle won, and the forces of the […] not only defeated and […], but slain and cut in pieces, so that their strength is broken, and they utterly disabled to make head, with any hope of recovering the field, or repairing their losses; there may happily some scattered companies be skulking here and there, and pilfering and molesting the State, but they have no hope to recover their power; the Country and Kingdom falls wholly to the Conqueror. So here, when the corrupt heart comes in professed opposition against the Lord Jesus, in the power of his Ordinances, and the Lord is pleased to put forth his power