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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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Object. Oh, all that is true, (saith the poor Soul) had I but a Heart to mourn for my Baseness. See my Sins I do, but this is my Misery, I cannot be burdened with them; I have a Heart that cannot break and mourn ⟨p. 11⟩for dishonouring God, and offending him so many Ways. But I say,
Answ. This Hurts not neither; provided that thy Heart be weary of it self, because it cannot be weary of Sin, Mich, 7.18. The Lord showeth Mercy, because he will show Mercy: It is not because thou canst please him, but because Mercy pleaseth him. When did the Lord show Mercy to Paul? I say, When, but even when Paul did express most Malice against him? Acts 16. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? He persecutes Christ, and yet Christ pities him, and shows him Mercy: And so the churlish Jailer, when he was most opposite against the Means of Grace, the Lord even then showed most Compassion upon him. He that (before) resisted the Means of Grace, was now brought home by those Means that before he resisted.
Answ. This Hurts not neither; provided that thy Heart be weary of it self, because it cannot be weary of Sin, Mich, 7.18. The Lord sheweth Mercy, because he will shew Mercy: It is not because thou canst please him, but because Mercy pleaseth him. When did the Lord shew Mercy to Paul? I say, When, but even when Paul did express most Malice against him? Acts 16. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? He persecutes Christ, and yet Christ pities him, and shews him Mercy: And so the churlish Jaylor, when he was most opposite against the Means of Grace, the Lord even then shewed most Compassion upon him. He that (before) resisted the Means of Grace, was now bro't home by those Means that before he resisted.