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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
GRACE Magnified: OR, The PRIVILED GES of those that are under Grace.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SERMON III.
Rom. 6. 14. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the Law, but under Grace.
The blessed Apostle Saint Paul, having in the two former Verses exhorted the Romans to whom he wrote this Epistle, that they should not let sin reign in their mortal body; nor yield their members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. He cometh in this Verse to prevent a discouragement, which of all others is the greatest hinderer of our endeavours after holiness, and might happily dis-hearten these Romans, from yielding obedience to this exhortation, for they might think with themselves, that it was impossible for them to keep sin from reigning in them, and therefore it was in vain for them to endeavour to do what he had exhorted them unto. To prevent this discouragement, the Apostle in this Verse that I have read unto you, annexeth a promise to that his Exhortation, and in the name of God assureth them, that they shall attain to that which he had commanded them to labour for. He had exhorted them that they should not ⟨p. 80⟩let sin reign in them, and here he promiseth that sin shall not reign over them.
THe blessed Apostle Saint Paul, having in the two former Verses exhorted the Romans to whom he wrote this Epistle, that they should not let sin reign in their mortall bodie; nor yeeld their members as instruments of unrighteousnesse unto sin. He cometh in this Verse to prevent a discouragement, which of all others is the greatest hinderer of our endeavours after holinesse, and might happily dis-hearten these Romans, from yeelding obedience to this exhortation, for they might think with themselves, that it was impossible for them to keep sin from reigning in them, and therefore it was in vain for them to indeavour to doe what he had exhorted them unto. To prevent this discouragement, the Apostle in this Verse that I have read unto you, annexeth a promise to that his Exhortation, and in the name of God asureth them, that they shall attain to that which he had commanded them to labour for. He had exhorted them that they should not