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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 Poor doubting Christian Drawn to CHRIST. › Conclusion: The Conclusion.
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Secondly; And when our Hearts are possessed thoroughly of the Sufficiency of GOD'S Promise and Grace; that then the Promise that draws near, begins it's Work.
Secondly; And when our Hearts are possessed thoro'ly of the Sufficiency of GOD'S Promise and Grace; that then the Promise that draws near, begins it's Work.
Thirdly; That when we expect all from the Promise, even Power to come to it, that then It lays fast hold upon us.
Fourthly; That when we are content to yield to the just Conditions of the Promise, then the Promise carries us, and all in us.
Thus we have seen the Hindrances removed, and the Means propounded: And hence we see, that Faith is to be laboured for above all Graces. And now that we may be moved and persuaded importunately to seek after this blessed Grace of God; let us further consider thus much, namely, that if we once get this Grace, we get all other Graces with it; which is a Ground of much Comfort, and cannot but keep us doing: For will it not much encourage a Man, when in the doing of one Work he knows he shall do another, nay, all his Work with one Labour! But so it is in the Work of Faith. Oh then how should it encourage us to labour for Faith, seeing that by getting it, we have all? Men that are wise to provide for themselves, and to lay out their Monies in some Purchase for the best; when they see a Ground well wooded and watered, but especially to have some rich Mines in it, all their Minds will be upon such a Place, because, having it, they have all with it. So it should be here, in our Desires: And as there, so here; get this Grace, and get all: Strengthen here, and all is strong: