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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Sinner. It is true (saith the Soul) yet it is as true, that, whoso confesseth and forsaketh his Sin shall have Mercy, Prov. 28.13.
Satan. But (saith the Devil) dost thou not see that thou art full of Pride and Weakness, and secretly unwilling to come to Duties?
Sinner. It is true (saith the Soul) I am so, yet I hate, and desire to forsake this Way, and therefore shall find Mercy; the Word saith so, Isaiah 55.7.
Satan. But (saith the Devil) are you of God's Counsel? secret Things belong to God.
Sinner. Indeed (saith the Soul) I know not what God's secret Will is; yet that I know, that the Word saith; which is, He hath no Pleasure in the Death of a Sinner, but invites such daily to come unto him,