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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.
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, Ezek. 33.11.
Satan. But (saith the Devil) many cozen themselves: Mercy is as a black Swan, a rare Bird; and few obtain it: And why (then) may not you be cozened as well as others?
Sinner. But (saith the Soul) the Lord will not cozen me, and the Lord knows my Heart; and the Word knows what the Lord knows.
Satan. But (saith the Devil) may not you be deceived in the Letter of the Word? The Word is true indeed; but how know you that you rightly apply it, and that the Word and your Heart suit together?