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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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But when by Christ the Law is now satisfied, and Justice answered, and the Soul delivered from under the Covenant of the Law as broken, and the power of sin removed, the bond of the Covenant whereby they were married, is now dis-annulled, so that sin cannot Challenge any Right over the soul, no more than a dead Husband, nor yet should the Soul yield to any such Claim.
But when by Christ the Law is now satisfied, and Justice answered, and the Soul delivered from under the Covenant of the Law as broken, and the power of sin removed, the bond of the Covenant whereby they were married, is now dis-annulled, so that sin cannot Challenge any Right over the soul, no more than a dead Husband, nor yet should the Soul yeild to any such Claim.
As Sin and Satan can make no Claim to the Soul,§3 so neither can they keep possession of it; but they are Outed there also by Christ. For as it is in Marriage, the Woman who is engaged by Marriage Covenant, as she is bound by Law to the Man, so are they tied to mutual Cohabitation one with another, possession and enjoyment of each other: So here, when by the breach of the Covenant of the Law, the soul was under the Right and Claim of sin, sin and Satan took up their abode in the soul, and took possession of it. So Satan is said to cast it into the mind of Judas, and to enter into him, Luke, 22. 3. And Judas himself is said to be a Devil. Joh. 6. last. That was only spiritually. And what he did to him, he doth to all the Children of wrath, while they remain in their natural estate, when now the Lord Jesus comes to bring the soul under the Covenant of Grace and to make the sinner one of the seed of that Covenant, he casts out sin and Satan, and dispossesseth them so, that they cannot have ingress and egress as before, nor can he say, I will return to my house, nor take up his abode there, nor will he find it swept and garnished that he may solace himself therein, and enjoy his habitation as in former times, but he finds the door now shut against him: This is the meaning of that place,