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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.
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.
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 Joh. 5. When our Saviour could cure that impotent man that lay at the pool of Bethesda, he first asked him this question (vers. 6.) Wilt thou be made whole? If so be he had not been willing, Christ would not have healed him. Why did Christ ask him the Question? To stir up in him a desire of being made whole, for God never giveth till we desire.
First, thou art not willing it may be to be made whole, thou art not willing to obey Gods Commandements. Truth, God hath commanded thee a great many things, but thou art not willing to doe 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 Joh. 5. When our Saviour could cure that impotent man that lay at the pool of Bethesda, he first asked him this question (vers. 6.) Wilt thou be made whole? If so bee he had not been willing, Christ would not have healed him. Why did Christ ask him the Question? To stir up in him a desire of being made whole, for God never giveth till we desire.