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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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Quest. But some will say, How may a Man expect THAT from the PROMISE, which GOD intends, and will undoubtedly bestow?
For Answer hereunto, I will show WHAT thou mayest expect, and WHAT GOD will undoubtedly bestow. If thou dost believe, Heaven and Salvation are certainly thine, and Perseverance to the End, and that Manner and Measure of Assistance, that may make thee fit for Perseverance: These three Things grow here. But for temporal Blessings which we desire, and that Measure of spiritual Blessings which we would have; so much Grace, and so much Assistance, and so much Abilities to do Duties; God doth not engage himself to bestow these. But that which God engageth himself to bestow, both for temporal and spiritual Blessings, it may be discovered in these three Particulars: So much Grace and Assurance of God's Love, and so much Comfort in Grace as he sees fit for thee, after his own Order, and in his own Time. I will open ⟨p. 121⟩them all, because many do here bungle wonderfully.
For Answer hereunto, I will shew WHAT thou may'st expect, and WHAT GOD will undoubtedly bestow. If thou dost believe, Heaven and Salvation are certainly thine, and Perseverance to the End, and that Manner and Measure of Assistance, that may make thee fit for Perseverance: These three Things grow here. But for temporal Blessings which we desire, and that Measure of spiritual Blessings which we would have; so much Grace, and so much Assistance, and so much Abilities to do Duties; God doth not engage himself to bestow these. But that which God engageth himself to bestow, both for temporal and spiritual Blessings, it may be discovered in these three Particulars: So much Grace and Assurance of God's Love, and so much Comfort in Grace as he sees fit for thee, after his own Order, and in his own Time. I will open ⟨p. 121⟩them all, because many do here bungle wonderfully.