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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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Therefore I say, be exhorted, seeing Christ hath so dearly bought your redemption from all iniquity; Oh in the name of Christ be exhorted, neither for pleasure, nor for honour, nor for fear, neither to please your selves, nor the world, nor your friends, never be brought under any iniquity, for Christ gave himself for this end, to redeem us from all iniquity. This is the first exhortation, to exhort us to take heed of coming under any iniquity, seeing to redeem us from it, Christ gave himself.
Therefore I say, be exhorted, seeing Christ hath so dearly bought your redemption from all iniquitie; Oh in the name of Christ be exhorted, neither for pleasure, nor for honour, nor for fear, neither to please your selves, nor the world, nor your friends, never be brought under any iniquitie, for Christ gave himself for this end, to redeem us from all iniquitie. This is the first exhortation, to exhort us to take heed of coming under any iniquitie, seeing to redeem us from it, Christ gave himself.
The second Exhortation is, to exhort us to labour every day more and more to get from under that iniquity under which we are. The former Exhortation exhorted us to keep our selves from coming under that from which we are gotten; this is to exhort us, to labour every day more and more to get from under that iniquity, under which we are: For did Christ give himself for this end, Oh then let us never give over till we are gotten from under all iniquity. What end can we better aim at, then Christ aimed at, the redeeming us from all iniquity? let us also aim at this, to redeem our selves from all iniquity.
The second Exhortation is, to exhort us to labour every day more and more to get from under that iniquitie under which we are. The former Exhortation exhorted us to keep our selves from coming under that from which we are gotten; this is to exhort us, to labour every day more and more to get from under that iniquitie, under which we are: For did Christ give himself for this end, Oh then let us never give over till we are gotten from under all iniquitie. What end can we better aim at, then Christ aimed at, the redeeming us from all iniquitie? let us also aim at this, to redeem our selves from all iniquitie.