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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.
It is a Point clear and evident from the Text, the Lord here commandeth them that they should not let sin reign in them, and here he also promiseth that sin shall not reign over them.
It is as evident in other places of Scripture, I might give you divers instances thereof, but that I only purpose to touch this Point, and no more, because you see I gather it from the Coherence; yet I will name you one or two, for the fuller clearing thereof. God commandeth his people to fear his name, as you have it often in the Scripture; and in Jer. 32.39. he promiseth to give them a heart to fear him, I will give them (saith he there) one heart that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and their children after them. The Lord commandeth his people to love him, to set their hearts upon him, My son, give me thy heart, as you have it in the Proverbs. And the Lord promiseth, that he will make them set their hearts upon him, Hosea 2.14 I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her; the word is, I will speak to her heart, as it is in some of the Margents of your Bibles: It is a metaphor alluding to the manner of a man, that having a desire to have the conjugal affection of such a maid, doth so set himself to allure her, and draw her, as to bring her heart for to love him, so faith the Lord, as I have commanded my people to give me their heart, I will allure them, and speak to their heart, so as I will make them set their hearts upon me.
It is as evident in other places of Scripture, I might give you divers instances thereof, but that I onely purpose to touch this Point, and no more, because you see I gather it from the Coherence; yet I will name you one or two, for the fuller clearing thereof. God commandeth his people to fear his name, as you have it often in the Scripture; and in Jer. 32.39. he promiseth to give them a heart to fear him, I will give them (saith he there) one heart that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and their children after them. The Lord commandeth his people to love him, to set their hearts upon him, My son, give me thy heart, as you have it in the Proverbs. And the Lord promiseth, that he will make them set their hearts upon him,