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The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men…
The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men from coming to Christ, are discovered. : With special helps to recover God's favour. / By Thomas Hooker. ; With an abstract of the author's life. ; [Four lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed by Green for D. Henchman, 1743
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The Want of this, is the Cause why new Suits and new Bills are daily put in against us: Only because Conscience is not pacified, nor all quieted. And now take a poor Sinner that hath all his Doubts and Objections answered; come to him, and say, Are all these all your Doubts and Objections? he will say, Yea. And are they all answered? here he will say, Yea too. And have you now any Thing to say against that which hath been made known unto you? No not now. But say to him again, Did your Conscience say to you, It is a Sin to say you have no Grace? Here he demurs and stops, and says, No, I dare not say so, but I rather say the contrary. And now mark what he says: All the Books are crossed, and all Objections answered, and yet Conscience puts in a new Plea, because haply it was not satisfied to the full, and in every Parcel of Aberration.
The Want of this, is the Cause why new Suits and new Bills are daily put in against us: Only because Conscience is not pacified, nor all quieted. And now take a poor Sinner that hath all his Doubts and Objections answered; come to him, and say, Are all these all your Doubts and Objections? he will say, Yea. And are they all answered? here he will say, Yea too. And have you now any Thing to say against that which hath been made known unto you? No not now. But say to him again, Did your Conscience say to you, It is a Sin to say you have no Grace? Here he demurs and stops, and says, No, I dare not say so, but I rather say the contrary. And now mark what he says: All the Books are crost, and all Objections answered, and yet Conscience puts in a new Plea, because haply it was not satisfied to the full, and in every Parcel of Aberration.
And now come to him again, and say, You are sometimes captivated by Sin, are you not? And are you willing to be at God's free Dispose, and that he should pluck away all your Corruptions, as it were Shackles from you, are you not?