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The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…
The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. / Delivered in several sermons: by that reverend divine, Thomas Hooker, late preacher in New-England.The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. / Delivered in severall sermons: by that reverend divine, Thomas Hooker, late preacher in New-England.
London: printed by G.D. for Francis Eglesfield, 1651
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I beseech you observe it; Christ did it thus. Because that which brought believers under iniquity, (as you have heard) was the breaking of Gods Law, Christ he cometh and fulfillleth the Law of God, and he suffereth all that which the justice of God thought due for the breach of his Law: And so Christ doing that which believers should have done, namely, to keep the Law; and suffering that which believers had deserved by their sins, Christ doing and suffering this in the nature of believers, that is in mans nature, so that the same nature that sinned, suffered; the same nature that was bound to keep the Law, did keep the Law in Christ; hence it cometh to pass, that Christ giving God the full price for their ransom, ⟨p. 30⟩he cometh to redeem them from all iniquity.
I beseech you observe it; Christ did it thus. Because that which brought beleevers under iniquitie, (as you have heard) was the breaking of Gods Law, Christ he cometh and fulfillleth the Law of God, and he suffereth all that which the justice of God thought due for the breach of his Law: And so Christ doing that which beleevers should have done, namely, to keep the Law; and suffering that which beleevers had deserved by their sins, Christ doing and suffering this in the nature of beleevers, that is in mans nature, so that the same nature that sinned, suffered; the same nature that was bound to keep the Law, did keep the Law in Christ; hence it cometh to passe, that Christ giving God the full price for their ransome, ⟨p. 30⟩he cometh to redeem them from all iniquitie.
And that you may yet the better see that Christ by this act of his, giving himself thus to be a man, to obey all the Law, and to suffer all the wrath of God due to sin, that he did fully pay the price that might ransom all believers, consider but in brief these things.
And that you may yet the better see that Christ by this act of his, giving himself thus to be a man, to obey all the Law, and to suffer all the wrath of God due to sin, that he did fully pay the price that might ransome all beleevers, consider but in brief these things.