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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.
That which issues from the Deity and […] firstly, that must indifferently belong to all the Persons: For as all the Persons have the same individual Essence wholly and equally communicated, they are all one God. The Unity of the God-Head is a of it, and all in a like manner at once given to them […] And thence it follows, That as the same Essence, […] the same both Attributes and Actions which appertain to the God-Head, or be done by the God-Head are wholly and jointly affirmed of all the Persons They all are Infinite, Eternal, Omnipotent: […] Create, Redeem, Call, Convert, Sanctify; because these Actions are Creatures, therefore […] the first Being, but from the First; therefore from the God-Head: and therefore are truly said to […] done by all that have the God-Head, and are truly said to be God, and so by all the Persons.
That which issues from the Deity and 〈…〉 firstly, that must indifferently belong to al the Persons: For as al the Persons have the same individual Essence wholly and equally communicated, they are al one God. The Unity of the God-Head is a of it, and al in a like manner at once given to them 〈…〉 And thence it follows, That as the same Essence, 〈…〉 the same both Attributes and Actions which appertain to the God-Head, or be done by the God-Head are wholly and joyntly affirmed of all the Persons They al are Infinire, Eternal, Omnipotent: 〈…〉 Create, Redeem, Call, Convert, Sanctifie; because these Actions are Creatures, therefore 〈…〉 the first Being, but from the First; therefore from the God-Head: and therefore are truly said to 〈…〉 done by al that have the God-Head, and are truly said to be God, and so by al the Persons.
Again, Look we to the language of the Spirit […] the Scripture, we shall see that either the very […] of the text so speaks as here, or else the same thing in the same […], in some variety of Explication […] given unto all.