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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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The Second Use is for Exhortation: Is this the end why Christ gave himself, to redeem us from all iniquity; then let us that are believers, be exhorted to these two things.
The Second Use is for Exhortation: Is this the end why Christ gave himself, to redeem us from all iniquitie; then let us that are beleevers, be exhorted to these two things.
First of all, let us be afraid of coming under any Iniquity. ⟨p. 35⟩The Lord Christ did so much desire our redemption from all iniquity, That he gave himself for that end; Oh then let us be afraid of being again brought under the power of any iniquity. Hath Christ so much desired our freedom from Iniquity, as that he gave himself for that end, and shall not we have a care, that Christ may have his desire, in keeping our selves free from iniquity? Suppose a Father had been content to redeem his son out of prison (wherein he was perpetually to lie for debt) to sell all that he had, and to strip himself of all his estate to set his son free; should we not cry out of that son, that should after that he was redeemed so costly by his father, again turn Prodigal? It is as gross a thing (my brethren) for us that are redeemed by Christ with so costly a Redemption, as is even the giving of himself, to rush again under the power of that iniquity, from which to redeem us, Christ hath given himself.
First of all, let us be afraid of coming under any Iniquitie. ⟨p. 35⟩The Lord Christ did so much desire our redemption from all iniquitie, That he gave himself for that end; Oh then let us bee afraid of being again brought under the power of any iniquitie. Hath Christ so much desired our freedome from Iniquitie, as that he gave himself for that end, and shall not we have a care, that Christ may have his desire, in keeping our selves free from iniquitie? Suppose a Father had been content to redeem his son out of prison (wherein he was perpetually to lie for debt) to sell all that he had, and to strip himself of all his estate to set his son free; should we not cry out of that son, that should after that he was redeemed so costly by his father, again turn Prodigall? It is as grosse a thing (my brethren) for us that are redeemed by Christ with so costly a Redemption, as is even the giving of himself, to rush again under the power of that iniquitie, from which to redeem us, Christ hath given himself.