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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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First, the grace of Faith: For this in-being of Christ in all justified persons, is the consequent of their union with him: ⟨p. 50⟩Now by faith they are joined to Christ, and Christ being joined to them, and they to him, Christ is in them, as well as they in him. Therefore in that forenamed place, Eph. 3.17. Christ is said to dwell in our hearts by faith.
First, the grace of Faith: For this in-being of Christ in all justified persons, is the consequent of their union with him: ⟨p. 50⟩Now by faith they are joyned to Christ, and Christ being joyned to them, and they to him, Christ is in them, as well as they in him. Therefore in that forenamed place, Eph. 3.17. Christ is said to dwell in our hearts by faith.
Another means is, The abiding of Christs word in us, John 15.7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you: In the fourth Verse, our Saviour had said thus, Abide in me, and I in you, now repeating that again, he somewhat altereth it, and saith, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you: I conceive the ground of the alteration is only this, because the abiding of Christs word in people is a means whereby Christ doth abide in them. By the words of Christ, I take it, is meant the Gospel of Christ, with all the commandments, instructions, and promises, that are contained in it: Now when this Word of Christ doth abide in people, which it doth when understood, remembered, practised, and observed, by this means Christ is said, and made to abide in them. The words of Christ are as so many plants which he doth ingraft into a poor soul, as we do ingraft Scions into a stock; Therefore the Apostle calls it the ingrafted word which is able to save your souls, Jam 1.21. Now look as the stock cometh to have the nature and to bear the fruit of the Scion, by having the Scion implanted and ingrafted into it; even so by ingrafting the word of Christ into us, we come to have the sap and life of the Spirit of Christ, and consequently Christ himself to abide in us.