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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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To make now some Use of this Point, and so to conclude, This Doctrine my brethren, is wonderful sweet and useful, and therefore I have been somewhat the longer, in the proving and explaining thereof. It serveth both for Consolation, Exhortation, and Instruction.
To make now some Use of this Point, and so to conclude, This Doctrine my brethren, is wonderfull sweet and usefull, and therefore I have been somewhat the longer, in the proving and explaining thereof. It serveth both for Consolation, Exhortation, and Instruction.
First of all, here is wonderful sweet consolation to all you that are believers, you that have a faith purifying your hearts, a faith working by love, a faith as a breastplate, which preserveth in you a conjugal affection to Christ from all the aduldulteties of the world, flesh, and Devil; you that have a faith overcoming the world, to you I speak, you are those happy ones for whom Christ gave himself, to redeem you from all iniquity, to redeem you from the power of sin, from the guilt of sin, from the punishment of sin. Be therefore of good comfort, thou that art a believer, thou shalt certainly be delivered from all iniquity. Hath Christ given himself for this end, and is not attainable? It were folly in Christ to give himself for an end which is not attainable; No my brethren, ⟨p. 33⟩hath Christ given himself for it, and shall it not be done? If this be the end for which Christ gave himself, then either this end is made good, or else Christ is disappointed of his end.
First of all, here is wonderfull sweet consolation to all you that are beleevers, you that have a faith purifying your hearts, a faith working by love, a faith as a brestplate, which preserveth in you a conjugall affection to Christ from all the aduldulteties of the world, flesh, and Devill; you that have a faith overcomming the world, to you I speak, you are those happy ones for whom Christ gave himself, to redeem you from all iniquitie, to redeem you from the power of sin, from the guilt of sin, from the punishment of sin. Be therefore of good comfort, thou that art a beleever, thou shalt certainly be delivered from all iniquitie. Hath Christ given himself for this end, and is not attainable? It were folly in Christ to give himself for an end which is not attainable; No my brethren,