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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
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Give me leave to spend a little time in the opening of the Words. And first, what is meant here by us? Who they are that are the object of this action of Christ? Who they are for whom Christ gave himself?
Give me leave to spend a little time in the opening of the Words. And first, what is meant here by us? Who they are that are the object of this action of Christ? Who they are for whom Christ gave himselfe?
In a word, the Persons for whom Christ gave himself, they are believers: In 1 Tim 4.10. he is there said to be the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe. You see in the Verse before my Text, he is called our Saviour, how he gave himself for them to whom he is a Saviour, but (saith the Apostle) he is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. The meaning of the place is this, Christ he saveth all men with a common temporal salvation, he saveth them from many dangers, from many miseries, he is a general Saviour to all men; but a special Saviour to save from Hell, from the wrath of God, from the guilt and power of sin; thus specially the Lord Christ is a Saviour only to them that believe: So that by the Object of this Act, (included in the word [Us,] he gave himself for us) is meant believers, them that do believe in him.
In a word, the Persons for whom Christ gave himself, they are beleevers: In 1 Tim 4.10. he is there said to be the Saviour of all men, especially of those that beleeve. You see in the Verse before my Text, he is called our Saviour, how he gave himself for them to whom he is a Saviour, but (saith the Apostle) he is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that beleive. The meaning of the place is this, Christ he saveth all men with a common temporall salvation, he saveth them from many dangers, from many miseries, he is a generall Saviour to all men; but a speciall Saviour to save from Hell, from the wrath of God, from the guilt and power of sin; thus specially the Lord Christ is a Saviour only to them that beleeve: So that by the Object of this Act, (included in the word [Ʋs,] he gave himself for us) is meant beleevers, them that doe beleeve in him.