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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.
Secondly, the ground of the promise, in the latter part of the words, for you are not under the Law, but under Grace.
Let me briefly open the words unto you; and I will begin with the first, sin shall not have dominion over you. For the understanding of this, you must know, there is a double dominion of sin, the one is, when sin reigneth to obedience; the other is, when sin reigneth to death.
Let me briefly open the words unto you; and I will begin with the first, sinne shall not have dominion over you. For the understanding of this, you must know, there is a double dominion of sinne, the one is, when sinne reigneth to obedience; the other is, when sinne reigneth to death.
First, I say, there is a reign or dominion of sin to obedience: that is it which is spoken of in the 12. verse of this Chapter, Let not sin reign in you, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof: This dominion of sin, is when as sin doth sit in the soul, as a King sitteth upon his Throne, and commandeth the heart of a man, and all the members of his body, as a lawful Sovereign doth command his Subjects.
First, I say, there is a reign or dominion of sinne to obedience: that is it which is spoken of in the 12. verse of this Chapter, Let not sinne reign in you, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof: This dominion of sinne, is when as sinne doth sit in the soule, as a King sitteth upon his Throne, and commandeth the heart of a man, and all the members of his body, as a lawfull Soveraigne doth command his Subjects.