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. /…

Name: The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…
Author: Thomas Hooker

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.

Thomas Hooker 1586–1647London: printed by G.D. for Francis Eglesfield, 1651

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GRACE Magnified: OR, The PRIVILED GES of those that are under Grace.

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True, but yet notwithstanding are they to great for God to do: Is not God able to make thee able to do them? Hath not God promised to make thee able to do them? Yes, where is the fault then? what is the reason thou doest not do them, but that thou walkest in so many transgressions? where is the fault? what canst thou say for thy self? Is not God able, or is not God faithful? Yes, God can do it, and God hath promised to do it. Surely then the fault lieth only in thy self.

True, but yet notwithstanding are they to great for God to doe: Is not God able to make thee able to doe them? Hath not God promised to make thee able to doe them? Yes, where is the fault then? what is the reason thou doest not doe them, but that thou walkest in so many transgressions? where is the fault? what canst thou say for thy self? Is not God able, or is not God faithfull? Yes, God can doe it, and God hath promised to doe it. Surely then the fault lieth onely in thy self.

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Consider it seriously, and you shall find one of these two things to be the cause of all the sins you live in, that are the people of God: Either this, that you are not willing to be made whole, you are not willing to be rid of your sins; or else this, that you are not able to believe the truth of what God hath said. One of these two is the cause of all the sins of Gods people.

Consider it seriously, and you shall finde one of these two things to be the cause of all the sins you live in, that are the people of God: Either this, that you are not willing to bee made whole, you are not willing to be rid of your sins; or else this, that you are not able to beleeve the truth of what God hath said. One of these two is the cause of all the sins of Gods people.

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First, thou art not willing it may be to be made whole, thou art not willing to obey Gods Commandments. Truth, God hath commanded thee a great many things, but thou art not willing to do them, and because thou art not willing, therefore God doth not make thee able. For (my brethren) this is a sure rule, God never makes any able to obey, but they that first of all by God are made willing to obey. In

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