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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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Thus you see what is meant by sin, namely, the transgression of Gods Law, either in omission or commission: What by righteousness; The observation of Gods Law in the duties of the first and second Table: What by the body; Original corruption; What by the spirit, the habit of holiness, or original righteousness.
Thus you see what is meant by sin, namely, the transgression of Gods Law, either in omission or commission: What by righteousness; The observation of Gods Law in the duties of the first and second Table: What by the bodie; Originall corruption; What by the spirit, the habit of holiness, or originall righteousnesse.
Now then the whole amounteth to this; That if so be the Lord Christ be in people, then there is a death of sin in them, and a life of righteousness: Thus much is meant by the words, let them be taken any way, which way soever Expositors can carry them, this must be the sense of them; ⟨p. 54⟩and therefore we need not spend further time in the Exposition; but will fall directly upon the Doctrine, which is this:
Now then the whole amounteth to this; That if so bee the Lord Christ be in people, then there is a death of sin in them, and a life of righteousnesse: Thus much is meant by the words, let them be taken any way, which way soever Expositors can carry them, this must be the sence of them; ⟨p. 54⟩and therefore we need not spend further time in the Exposition; but will fall directly upon the Doctrine, which is this:
In whomsoever Christ is, there is a death of sin, and a life of righteousness.