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. /…

Name: The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…
Author: Thomas Hooker

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.

Thomas Hooker 1586–1647London: printed by G.D. for Francis Eglesfield, 1651

[8], 248, [4] p. · 93k words · Wing H2654 · ESTC R202448

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The Blessed Inhabitant: OR, The Benefit of Christs being in Believers.The Blessed Inhabitant: OR, The Benefit of Christs being in Beleevers.

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:154p. 48–49

For the further understanding hereof, I will let you know in a word or two (for I purpose but to touch it) how the Lord Jesus Christ is in all justified persons. First, he is in them, as the Householder or Master of the Family is in his house: Therefore the Apostle saith, Eph. 3.17. That he doth dwell in our hearts. Look as the Master of the Family dwelleth in his house, ruling, commanding, and ordering all things there, even so is Christ in them that are justified persons. Again, he is in them, as the food that we receive is in our stomachs: Therefore he is often in the Scripture compared to meat and drink, because as meat and drink are in us, after we have eaten and drunken; so is the Lord Jesus Christ also in all them that are justified, for their refreshing, nourishing, and strengthening, and preservation of life in them. Last of all, He is in them as a mans life is in him; I live not, saith the Apostle, Gal. 2.20. but Christ liveth in me. Christ is in the ⟨p. 49⟩soul of a poor sinner that believeth, as our natural life is in our bodies; as our life doth act and move us, being the principle of all those motions that are in us, even so is Christ also in all justified persons.

For the further understanding hereof, I will let you know in a word or two (for I purpose but to touch it) how the Lord Jesus Christ is in all justified persons. First, he is in them, as the Housholder or Master of the Family is in his house: Therefore the Apostle saith, Eph. 3.17. That he doth dwell in our hearts. Look as the Master of the Family dwelleth in his house, ruling, commanding, and ordering all things there, even so is Christ in them that are justified persons. Again, he is in them, as the food that we receive is in our stomacks: Therefore he is often in the Scripture compared to meat and drink, because as meat and drink are in us, after we have eaten and drunken; so is the Lord Jesus Christ also in all them that are justified, for their refreshing, nourishing, and strengthning, and preservation of life in them. Last of all, He is in them as a mans life is in him; I live not, saith the Apostle,

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