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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.
I need not give you any further instances, you see the ⟨p. 81⟩point is clear, and directly issueth from the coherence of the Text with the foregoing words, and by these places and the like, you may see the truth of the Doctrine, viz. Gods gracious manner of dealing with his Children, that he promiseth to make them able to do whatsoever it is that he commandeth them to do.
I need not give you any further instances, you see the ⟨p. 81⟩point is cleare, and directly issueth from the coherence of the Text with the foregoing words, and by these places and the like, you may see the truth of the Doctrine, viz. Gods gracious manner of dealing with his Children, that he pmiseth to make them able to doe whatsoever it is that he commandeth them to doe.
And this (my brethren) is the difference between the Covenant of works and of grace, between the Law and the Gospel. In the Law, (which is the Covenant of works) the Lord commandeth many things, but promiseth to help them in nothing; In the Covenant of grace which is the Gospel) the Lord commandeth nothing, but he promiseth to make them able to do it.
And this (my brethren) is the difference between the Covenant of workes and of grace, between the Law and the Gospel. In the Law, (which is the Covenant of workes) the Lord commandeth many things, but promiseth to helpe them in nothing; In the Covenant of grace which is the Gospel) the Lord commandeth nothing, but he promiseth to make them able to doe it.
If you ask me the ground, or reason of Gods dealing thus with his Children. I answer, there is a double reason of it.