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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 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.
The Point you s•e is no more than the words of the Text explained: sinne may dwell with a child of God; and sinne may dwell in a child of God, Rom. 7. 17. It is no more I, but sinne that dwelleth in me: But sinne 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 Soveraignes laws, nor yet to damne him for obeying of it: thus sinne 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.
The truth of this you may see in Rom. 6. 18. Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness. He is not made free from the presence of sin, nor from the power of sin, for Saint Paul professeth of himself, Rom. 7. 23. I find a law in my members, that is sin, rebelling against the law of my mind, that is the grace of God that is in me, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin. Therefore sin may be in a man: A child of God is not free from the guilt of sin neither. But how then is he free from sin? Thus, he is free from the dominion of sin; sin doth not reign in them as a Lord and King; sin doth not reign in them so as to damn them for it.