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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44342	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 ...	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1656 (1656)	Wing H2639; ESTC R18255	773,515	1,170

able to reach the 〈◊〉 Psal. 49. 8. The Redemption of the Soul is 〈◊〉 it ceaseth for ever Men and Angels must 〈◊〉 it alone only the Lord Jesus the God of glory in 〈◊〉 all the treasures of Grace are hid he is able to 〈◊〉 the purchase and it hath cost him sweetly 〈◊〉 full dear no less than his very heart blood Reproof It checks a double Practice First of those that have interest in this purchase and 〈◊〉 want the Exercise of that heavenly skill or care 〈◊〉 confidence or all to improve it for their best 〈◊〉 They sit down appaled and 〈◊〉 with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their sins so 〈◊〉 so loathsom with the 〈◊〉 of Gods holiness and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as that they dare not beleeve it dare 〈◊〉 think it that either the pardon of their sins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their persons 〈◊〉 the least look of Gods love 〈◊〉 be vouchsafed to them Another while they sit 〈◊〉 discouraged under the pressure and pursuit of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and policy the violence and strength of 〈◊〉 own corruptions their sins live and are mighty 〈◊〉 therefore they conclude they can never overcome They stagger again in the assurance of Gods love and 〈◊〉 they dare not say but they would be Christs and 〈◊〉 his Death and 〈◊〉 shed is theirs they will not 〈◊〉 away that Why Have you laid down the purchase Take possession then into your hand Have you tendered the payment Take the Commodity 〈◊〉 is your own nay your due Say Lord I and all 〈◊〉 I have and all I can do are worthless and vile I am 〈◊〉 base sinful creature that need all spiritual good and comfort and yet deserve nothing but the contrary But here is the precious Blood of thy Son which thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon me it is a full purchase every way answerable to thy justice this precious blood is 〈◊〉 of precious Faith precious Peace 〈◊〉 Grace its pardoning purging pacifying blood 〈◊〉 beseech thee therefore though I be a sinful 〈◊〉 Creature through the blood of Jesus pitty me though polluted and loathsom through the 〈◊〉 of the blood of Jesus clense me So the 〈◊〉 Let us draw neer with a true heart in full 〈◊〉 of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an 〈◊〉 Conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Heb. 10. 22. Eye the worth of this Blood above all our unworthiness the Holiness of this above all the unholiness of our hearts and lives He that knowes 〈◊〉 what the purchase will come and hath the sum in sight and under his hand he can lay it down upon the 〈◊〉 pay it take it here is one there 's the other So Paul Rom. 8. 34. Who shall lay any thing 〈◊〉 the charge of Gods elect it is Christ that 〈◊〉 died Here 's the Blood of Jesus which thou art well pleased with hast accepted of therefore Lord give me my due that comfort that peace that wisdom that assurance which I stand in need of So again Gall. 6. 14. 〈◊〉 be it from me that I should rejoyce in any thing 〈◊〉 in the Cross of Christ He rejoyced in nothing but this therefore far be it from him that he should 〈◊〉 rejoyce in this It crusheth the confidence and dasheth the 〈◊〉 and delusions of presumptuous wretches who out of a brazen-faced kind of boldness will be scrambling for their own comfort catching at grace and mercy and peace when it belongs not to them True say they our sins persons conditions are such and so vile but the Lord is gracious and merciful and therefore they doubt not but to be accepted and saved and conclude that peace and happiness is theirs they take the good but tender no purchase lay hold upon their comfort 〈◊〉 never lay down the payment A way that God 〈◊〉 appointed a course that justice never permits 〈◊〉 mercy it self will not allow There 's no precious 〈◊〉 without precious blood No Redemption from 〈◊〉 blood and filth in which we lie by reason of our 〈◊〉 evils when I saw thee in thy blood I said 〈◊〉 but only by the blood of Jesus So the Apostle 〈◊〉 9. 22. The Book the People the Tabernacle 〈◊〉 Vessels the Ministery all things by the Law was 〈◊〉 with blood and without shedding of blood 〈◊〉 no remission No entring into the Holy of 〈◊〉 but by the blood of Jesus Mercy it self through 〈◊〉 vertue of the blood of Christ is communicated 〈◊〉 it self through the vertue of the blood of Christ 〈◊〉 unless therefore thou canst bring the 〈◊〉 the payment the blood of Jesus with thee 〈◊〉 dream to receive any good at the hands of the 〈◊〉 3. For Whom This is the Third Particular to be considered in 〈◊〉 the former point viz. The Parties for whom 〈◊〉 Purchase is made The Doctrine tels us Christ 〈◊〉 purchased all Spiritual Good FOR HIS 〈◊〉 we are to attend 1 What is that Formalis ratio that special respect 〈◊〉 which they come to be considered as having part in Christs merits 2 The meaning of that Particle what it imports to purchase FOR HIS To the First 〈◊〉 Answer plainly That this Purchase 〈◊〉 obtained this precious blood of Christ was shed 〈◊〉 Sinners BUT NOT AS SINNERS It s true Rom. 5. 6. That Christ died 〈◊〉 the ungodly That is When they are such and 〈◊〉 they are such vers 8. While we were yet Sinners Christ died for us but not 〈◊〉 such That is 〈◊〉 the special respect unto which the death of Christ 〈◊〉 appropriated in a peculiar and proper manner 〈◊〉 an old rule A 〈◊〉 ad omne That which agreed firstly to a thing under such a respect agrees to all 〈◊〉 have that respect and therefore if our Savior should die for sinners as sinners then he should die for all sinners and therefore for al men because all are 〈◊〉 When our Savior professed Matth. 9. 13. He 〈◊〉 not to call the righteous but sinners to 〈◊〉 i. e. there is none righteous all men being sinners 〈◊〉 such sinners as are secure and carnally confident 〈◊〉 their own righteousness Christ came not to call them Though then this respect is not to be excluded 〈◊〉 there is somthing more to be added 1 Tim. 1. 15. Christ came to save sinners of whom I am 〈◊〉 saies Paul Such sinners as are or shall be 〈◊〉 sensible of their sins in a right manner being lost 〈◊〉 point of pardon and grace and peace such sinners Christ came to save Besides However Christ died for none but the Elect and none but they shall receive any benefit 〈◊〉 Christ yet I take it Election is not that special respect that Christ looked at in his death and sufferings it is not low enough it lies not level to that 〈◊〉 which Christ and his have one towards another But Christ died for a sinner who is of the seed of the Covenant and shall beleeve qua peccator 〈◊〉 and therefore I do not exclude the respect of sin 〈◊〉 require that with an Addition Cum

nor can testifie that For he is the Spirit truth he cannot be deceived himself he will not 〈◊〉 ceive us he is the Spirit of God he cannot lye 1 〈◊〉 he cannot tell it much less give approbation or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereunto But the former 〈◊〉 made appear undeniable That it is a Falshood and an 〈◊〉 to say any man living hath right to or can challenge 〈◊〉 spiritual good in Christ before he doth Beleeve 〈◊〉 is no such thing to be found in the Word of 〈◊〉 Therefore the Spirit will never testifie that To affirm that the Spirit should say to any 〈◊〉 that he is in a state of Grace when he is in a state 〈◊〉 Sin that he is justified when he is Condemned 〈◊〉 little less than Blasphemy If the Spirit doth reveal a mans good Estate to 〈◊〉 it is for this purpose that he may know it and he 〈◊〉 inable him to receive that intimation that he may discern it else the one of these Two will follow 〈◊〉 Spirit should reveal this for no end if no good 〈◊〉 got by it or else not attain his end if the party 〈◊〉 not be able to understand what it doth reveal If 〈◊〉 former he should not be a wise Worker If the 〈◊〉 he was not a powerful Worker But know and understand this Testimony the Soul cannot by any power either of Nature or Corruption 1 Cor. 2. 14 The natural man receives not the things of the spirit of God neither can he know them because they 〈◊〉 spiritually discerned Nay Rom. 8. 7. The 〈◊〉 of the flesh is not subject unto the law therefore 〈◊〉 unto the Lord nor his Spirit If it be beyond Nature or Corruption then it 〈◊〉 be Grace that must help a man to discern it and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must be a qualification and the first 〈◊〉 of this k nd of saving knowledge must be an 〈◊〉 unto Faith if not Faith it self Fides est ex 〈◊〉 notitia This is eternal life to know thee the 〈◊〉 true God Joh. 17. 3. Two Inferences from the former Cases of Conscience thus Resolved These Two Cases being thus cleered 1 That an 〈◊〉 hath no right to any spiritual Good in 〈◊〉 And 2 That the spirit of God doth never 〈◊〉 known this to such a Soul Hence it s cleer 〈◊〉 manner and order that men have devised to make own the mind of God to a man and to give comfort the Soul in distress being cross to these truths now 〈◊〉 is an Erroneous and False way As for 〈◊〉 You being in distress about your Sins and 〈◊〉 under the Spirit of Bondage you must first lay 〈◊〉 in the bottom lay him in the foundation Christ 〈◊〉 first be yours and so united to you and your 〈◊〉 forgiven by him before you have any Faith or 〈◊〉 qualification wrought in you This Opinion 〈◊〉 sayes That Christ may be united to the Soul and 〈◊〉 be Justified and Adopted before he have any 〈◊〉 it is a dangerous Opinion a desperate 〈◊〉 that I may say no worse of it Mark what 〈◊〉 here 's the plot of all prophaness the ground of loosness and famalism A man may have Christ 〈◊〉 be Justified and Adopted while he is without 〈◊〉 and therefore while he is under the power of Sins and the Spirit of God may witness this And 〈◊〉 though a man fall into any Sin or live in any sin 〈◊〉 it be he may have recourse to this 〈◊〉 this witness of the Spirit and that 's enough If a man say Prove it Are you in a state of Grace Is Christ yours Prove it then Prove it say they that I cannot do but the Spirit witnesses this to me Ay but prove this witness of the Spirit that it is from God according to his Word They will be forced to confess I cannot prove it neither to my self nor to another only thus I must beleeve it and you must beleeve me I was in trouble and distress about my Sins and then there was a voyce from Heaven the spirit did witness to me That Christ was mine and my Sins were pardoned c. This is a Spirit of Delusion the Devil is there Whatever the Spirit of God sayes it is that which the Scriptures say Therefore if you have a testimony which is not to be found in the Scripture nor can be proved and made good by the Scripture it is the testimony of the Devil not 〈◊〉 the Spirit of God for the Spirit of God and the Word of God ever go together therefore if you say you Have a witness of the Spirit and the Word say No I 'le say It is a Delusion Secondly Hence it follows also There are 〈◊〉 Promises wherein any saving good is Revealed or Evidenced to the Soul but either they are such 〈◊〉 God promiseth to work the Condition or suppose the Condition already wrought either 〈◊〉 mentioning a qualification or necessarily implying 〈◊〉 including the same out of other places to be collected where the same is professedly handled All spiritual good Redemption Justification Salvation purchased by Christ were intended only for them that do beleeve therefore there is no Promise in the Scripture but doth evidence this Sometimes you have the Covenant laid down in 〈◊〉 lump as it were in a brief Expression as in a 〈◊〉 sum comprehending all the whole frame and then 〈◊〉 several actions in their distinct order and manner 〈◊〉 Gods working are to be attended and conceived as though they had been more fully and in the several branches set forth unto us Take a tast of some few Gen. 3. 5. The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head The head of Satan implys Three things Policy Power and Poyson To break this head is to crush and confound all these The Policy and and Power of Satan is overthrown in the work of vocation when the Soul is turned from darkness to light from the power of Satan to God the venom and poyson of Satan is taken away partly in the 〈◊〉 and punishment which is done away in Justification partly in the stain and pollution of sin which is removed in Sanctification All these Christ doth in 〈◊〉 hearts of all his and some of these all the Saints of God must have evidence of before they can gain evidence that they are within the compass of this Covenant Thus the Apostle John disputes 1 Joh. 3. 3. to 5. Every one that hath this hope purifieth himself as Christ 〈◊〉 pure Why For sin is the transgression of the law and Christ was manifested to take away our sins therefore vers 6. whosoever abideth in him sinneth not Christ came to take away sin and therefore he that abideth in Christ cannot abide in sin and vers 8. The Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil So again Jerem. 31. 33. I will be their God and they shall be my people Zach. 13. last I will say it is my people and they shall say thou art the