The application of redemption by the effectual work of the word, and spirit of Christ, for the bringing home of lost sinners to God ... by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ...
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- The application of redemption by the effectual work of the word, and spirit of Christ, for the bringing home of lost sinners to God ... by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ...
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- Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.
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- London :: Printed by Peter Cole ...,
- 1656.
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- Redemption -- Early works to 1800.
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THE Application OF Redemption By the Effectual Work of the Word, and Spirt of Christ, for the bringing home of lost Sinners to God. The Ninth and Tenth Books. Beside many other seasonable, and Soul-searching Truths, there is also largely shewed,
- ••••The heart must be humble and contrite before the Lord will dwell in it.
- ••••Stubborn, and bloody Sinners may be made broken-hearted.
- ••••There must be true sight of sin, before the heart can be broken for it.
- ••••Application of special sins by the Mini∣stry, is a means to bring men to sight of, and sorrow for them.
- ••••Meditation of sin, a special means to break the heart.
- ••••The same word is profitable to some, not to others.
- ••••The Lord somtimes makes the word prevail most, when its most opposed.
- ••••Sins unrepented of, makes way for piercing Terrors.
- ••••The Truth terrible to a guilty consci∣ence.
- ••••••Gross and scandalous sinners, God usu∣ally exerciseth with heavy breakings of heart, before they be brought to Christ.
- 11. Sorrow for sin rightly set on, pierceth the heart of the sinner throughly
- 12. They whose hearts are pierced by the word, are carried with love and respect to the Ministers of it: And are busie to enquire, and ready to submit to the mind of God.
- 13. Sinners in distress of conscience, are ignorant what they should do.
- 14. A contrite sinner sees a necessity of co∣ming out of his sinful condition.
- 15. There is a secret hope wherewith the Lord supports the hearts of contrite sinners.
- 16. They who are truly pierced for their sins, do prize and covet deliverance from their sins.
- 17. True contrition is accompanied with confession of sin, when God calls there∣unto.
- 18. The Soul that is pierced for sin, is carried with a restless dislike against it.
By that Faithful, and known Servant of Christ, Mr. THOMAS HOOKER, late Pastor of the Church at Hartford in New∣England; somtimes Preacher of the Word at Chelmsford in Essex, and Fellow of Emmanuel Colledg in Cambridg.
Printed from the Authors Papers, written with his own Hand. And attested to be such, in an Epistle, By Thomas Goodwin, And Philip Nye.
London: Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange. 1657.