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The saints guide, in three treatises
The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercy, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnal mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercie, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnall mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.
London: printed for John Stafford over against Brids Church, 1645
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.
Remember such a time what thou didst, and how I did forbear, but I will forbear no longer, and at last Justice with a full swing brings in all the bonds and all reckonings, all those exhortations that have been slighted, reproofs scorned, means of grace enjoyed, and not bettered by, and those ancient multiplied and great transgressions; these all will break the back of mountains, and rocks are not able to bear off the billows of the wrath thus kindled; and thus the soul is in prison and under execution, and there like to lie, and rot, and perish.
Remember such a time what thou didst, and how I did forbeare, but I will forbeare no longer, and at last Justice with a full swindge brings in all the bonds and all recknings, all those exhortations that have beene slighted, reproofes scorned, meanes of grace enjoyed, and not bettered by, and those antient multiplyed and great transgressions; these all will breake the back of mountains, and rocks are not able to beare off the billowes of the wrath thus kindled; and thus the soule is in prison and under execution, and there like to lie, and rot, and perish.
Yet again, and at last cast, after the wrath of God hath thus arrested the soul, and the justice and truth and mercy ⟨p. 53⟩and patience and the forbearance of God hath laid action upon action upon the soul, and the soul is in execution, everlasting ruin being ready to seize on it, then mercy bails the sinner, even the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ comes in, and undertakes that the soul shall appear or mercy will satisfy for him, so the sinner is yet reprieved, Mercy gets the day, when a sinner comes out of the horror of conscience, and the devourings of justice. Oh the bowels of mercy: Oh the mercy of a Father: the blood of a Christ, the comfort of the Spirit calls the soul out of prison. Oh turn, why will ye dye, Ezek. 18.13. Remember the knocks and horrors of conscience, the beginnings of hell: they all come ⟨p. 54⟩