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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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2 This act may be opposed from without: yea, act and power may be destroyed, without any prejudice to the liberty of Will, or any way of Providence, or a reasonable Proceeding. So the text, Ezek. 36. 27. I will take away the heart of stone, and give unto them a heart of […], a new heart and a new spirit will I put within them. Gal. 5. 24. ⟨p. 387⟩They who are Christs have crucified the flesh with […] affections and […]. Original sin is flesh, the […] are the actings of it, and the affections are […] […] that are apt and ready to entertain such provocations, and to break out into such […]. Its impossible that while a thing acts by his own inward inclination, it should by outward force act against its inclination, though its possible and reasonable that the Lord cross both, yea, destroy both act, and inclination and all, as he will. God (as we may speak with reverence and fear) cannot make nature remaining to act against […]: for then, when there is the greatest Consension, there should be greatest opposition, and one thing should be opposite to its self. The […] […] are the principles of Constitution should be Causes of Destruction, which Reason abhors; but yet he can destroy nature without any breach of Rule, or Reason: So here, God can destroy the will and power of sinning, according to all the rules of Reason and […], but its against both, That God should compel the will of sinning, to be willing to destroy it self.
2 This act may be opposed from without: yea, act and power may be destroyed, without any prejudice to the liberty of Will, or any way of Providence, or a reasonable Proceeding. So the text, Ezek. 36. 27. I will take away the heart of stone, and give unto them a heart of 〈…〉, a new heart and a new spirit will I put within them. Gal. 5. 24. ⟨p. 387⟩They who are Christs have crucified the flesh with 〈…〉 affections and . Original sin is flesh, the are the actings of it, and the affections are that are apt and ready to entertain such provocations, and to break out into such . Its impossible that while a thing acts by his own inward inclination, it should by outward force act against its inclination, though its possible and reasonable that the Lord cross both, yea, destroy both act, and inclination and al, as he wil. God (as we may speak with reverence and fear) cannot make nature remaining to act against : for then, when there is the greatest Consension, there should be greatest opposition, and one thing should be opposite to its self. The are the principles of Constitution should be Causes of Destruction, which Reason abhors; but yet he can destroy nature without any breach of Rule, or Reason: So here, God can destroy the will and power of sinning, according to al the rules of Reason and , but its against both, That God should compel the will of sinning, to be willing to destroy it self.