Hooker - BT780 H7 1637

The.souleseffeauallcallingt. Chrift. ner, doe not goe to thy lulls, they will kill thee; but goe to theLord Chrift,andhe will lave thee ; goe notto theworld, it willdelude thee, but goe to theLord Chrift, andhe will lunch thee ; thou art filthy, but goe toChrift, and he will purge thee; thouart tiferable,but come toChrift,here is happinelre, and that will fave thee : by this time the wheele is flopped, and allo turned the right way, and every wheele is where it fhould be : and then the Lord juftifies a Poore firnet, and is wellpleafcdwith him, and is reconciled to him,and hegivethhis Spirit in adoption,and that isas thepoile, that fohe thall nomore be ruled by the world,nor byhislufs,but by-thegood Spirit of theLordJefes Chrift,and the handofthe Spi Tit oftheLord Jefes Chrift doth aflìft that pore futile forever. Thirdly, the foule having recei- ved the Spirit by faitk+,as -Gai. 4. 5. receives here- by the ädoptionof formes. Fourthly, now the whole frame of the heart nuns right, and is to- wards God,and for Goland lovesG.id and hath the fpirituall pock; and a new principle of it felfe, and this it themaine werke offanftífica- tiof : if you will take ïiri&ifacat.ion in the firick- te[t fenfe, all thetell axe Paving werkes, but this is the mainewotke ofall. Fiftiy, as the clocke when it is thus framed, ftrikesright, and when it is two, it ftrikes two, and when it is three, it ftrikes three : fo the foule is thus ledby the Spirit ofGod,as Rom.F3. r 4. and then it obeyesGod,and doth everygoodduty, and loves Godabove all, andhis neighbours as himfelfe, in truth, and in uprightnetl, 347

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