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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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Secondly, (which is indeed a fruit of the former, and a further expression of it) where there is this death of sin, there sin is never committed with full consent, delight, and purpose of heart. They that have sin alive in them, drink down iniquity like water, and draw sin unto them as it were with cart-ropes. And that I conceive the Psalmist meaneth by departing wickedly from God, Psal. 18. 21. They that have sin dead in them imperfectly may depart from God, but they do not wickedly depart from him, not with full consent, content, delight, and purpose of heart. And the Apostle saith, Rom. 8. 5. They that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh. A man that hath sin dead in him, may commit sin, but he doth not mind sin. We may conceive what this minding is by this similitude: When a woman that is with child strongly longs after something, she doth mind that thing: How? her mind is continually upon it, her eye, her heart, her fancies, her thoughts, her whole self, as it were, ⟨p. 60⟩is taken up with it: Thus is it with those that have sin alive in them, their particular corruptions are minded by them, they do with full gale post after the satisfying their lusts. They are said to make provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Rom. 13. 14. But now they that have sin dead in them, do never commit sin with the full bent of their spirit, with the full consent and delight of their will; but there is ever an antipathy to the sin, a with-drawing from the corruption something that doth lust against it, as well as something that doth lust after it.
Secondly, (which is indeed a fruit of the former, and a further expression of it) where there is this death of sin, there sin is never committed with full consent, delight, and purpose of heart. They that have sin alive in them, drink down iniquitie like water, and draw sin unto them as it were with cart-ropes. And that I conceive the Psalmist meaneth by departing wickedly from God, Psal. 18. 21. They that have sin dead in them imperfectly may depart from God, but they doe not wickedly depart from him, not with full consent, content, delight, and purpose of heart. And the Apostle saith,