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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 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.
The truth of this you may see in Rom. 6. 18. Being then made free from sinne, you became the servants of righteousnesse. He is not made free from the presence of sinne, nor from the power of sinne, for Saint Paul prosesseth of himselfe, Rom. 7. 23. I find a law in my members, that is sinne, 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 sinne. Therefore sinne may be in a man: A child of God is not free from the guilt of sinne neither. But how then is he free from sinne? Thus, he is free from the dominion of sinne; sinne doth not reign in them as a Lord and King; sinne doth not reign in them so as to damn them for it.
This is that also in Luke 1. 74. 75. That he would grant us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness, and righteousness, all the days of our life. Observe this Text; Every one that ⟨p. 94⟩