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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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CHAP. I. Impediments which hinder Souls from coming to Christ, removed.
THERE are divers Impediments which hinder poor Christians from coming to CHRIST; all which I desire to reduce to these following Heads,
I. FIRST, Such Hinderances as really keep ⟨p. 2⟩Men from coming to take hold of Christ at all; which are briefly these.
1. Blind, Careless, or Presumptuous Security; whereby Men content themselves with their present Condition, presuming all is well with them, when there is no such matter.
2. Being convinced of this, they bethink how to save themselves by their own Strength; and thereupon set upon a Reformation of Life, thinking to make God amends by reforming some Sins which they hear themselves reproved of by the Ministers.