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

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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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I answer, Amongst others, Christ is said to be in them in these two respects.

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First, Because his Spirit is in them. By his Spirit I do not mean his humane spirit, his soul, as he is a man, that is proper to himself, as every mans soul is; but by his Spirit, I mean, the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, the third Person in Trinity; which is the Spirit of Christ, both as he is the second Person in Trinity; so the Holy Ghost proceedeth from him together with the Father, and also as he is the Mediator of his Church; so it is his Spirit because he hath merited, and as it were purchased it, to employ it, and to send it about for the effecting of the salvation of the Elect. Now the Lord Christ is in believers by virtue of his spirit, because his spirit is in them. This the verse before the Text, and the verse after plainly prove, where the Apostle maketh mention of the Spirit of Christ dwelling in the faithful: If the Spirit of God dwell in you, v. 9. And If the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, Verse 11. This is the first Reason why Christ is said to be in justified persons; his Spirit is in them.

First, Because his Spirit is in them. By his Spirit I do not mean his humane spirit, his soul, as he is a man, that is proper to himself, as every mans soul is; but by his Spirit, I mean, the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, the third Person in Trinitie; which is the Spirit of Christ, both as he is the second Person in Trinitie; so the Holy Ghost proceedeth from him together with the Father, and also as he is the Mediatour of his Church; so it is his Spirit because he hath merited, and as it were purchased it, to imploy it, and to send it about for the effecting of the salvation of the Elect. Now the Lord Christ is in beleevers by vertue of his spirit, because his spirit is in them. This the verse before the Text, and the verse after plainly prove, where the Apostle maketh mention of the Spirit of Christ dwelling in the faithful: If the Spirit of God dwell in you, v. 9. And If the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, Verse 11. This is the first Reason why Christ is said to be in justified persons; his Spirit is in them.

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