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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.
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
So then the meaning of the words comes to this effect, that sinne shall neither have dominion over you to obedience, nor ⟨p. 93⟩to damnation: sinne shall neither reign over you, to make you obey it as a Subject his Soveraigne, 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 beleevers, to all that are members of Jesus Christ. And the observation that I note from thence is thus much, that
Sin shall never reign in the children of God, so as to make them obey it as a Subject their King; nor so as to damn them for obeying of it.
Sinne shall never reign in the children of God, so as to make them obey it as a Subject their King; nor so as to damn them for obeying of it.
The Point you s•e is no more than the words of the Text explained: sin may dwell with a child of God; and sin may dwell in a child of God, Rom. 7. 17. It is no more I, but sin that dwelleth in me: But sin shall never reign over a child of God, neither to make him obey it with full consent of will, as a Servant doth his Masters commands, or as a Subject doth his Sovereigns laws, nor yet to damn him for obeying of it: thus sin shall never reign over any child of God, though it may be in him, and dwell with him, yet it shall never reign over him.