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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.
The other reign of sin, which is a reign unto death, is that which is spoken of in Rom. 5. 21. there the text saith, Sin hath reigned unto death; and that is nothing, but the power that sin hath to damn all those whom it hath lorded it over. Now both these are meant in the Text, for both of them go together, the reign of sin to obedience, and the reign of sin to death and damnation: even as the light and heat of the Sun go together, so doth the dominion of sin to obedience and damnation go together. Where-ever sin reigneth to obedience, that is, where-ever sin is in the soul of a man as a King, making a man to obey it in his commands, as a Subject doth his Prince: there also will that sin reign to the damnation of that man. Both of them are meant in the words.
The other reign of sinne, which is a reign unto death, is that which is spoken of in Rom. 5. 21. there the text saith, Sinne hath reigned unto death; and that is nothing, but the power that sinne hath to damn all those whom it hath lorded it over. Now both these are meant in the Text, for both of them goe together, the reign of sinne to obedience, and the reign of sinne to death and damnation: even as the light and heat of the Sun goe together, so doth the dominion of sin to obedience and damnation goe together. Where-ever sinne reigneth to obedience, that is, where-ever sin is in the soul of a man as a King, making a man to obey it in his commands, as a Subject doth his Prince: there also will that sin reign to the damnation of that man. Both of them are meant in the words.
So then the meaning of the words comes to this effect, that sin shall neither have dominion over you to obedience, nor ⟨p. 93⟩to damnation: sin shall neither reign over you, to make you obey it as a Subject his Sovereign, nor to damn you for obedience of it. This is the meaning of the promise, and this is a promise that is made to all believers, to all that are members of Jesus Christ. And the observation that I note from thence is thus much, that