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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.
This is it that the Papists, and the old Pelagians, and divers other Heretics will not give to God, that all that we have for matter of encouragement is of Grace.
This is it that the Papists, and the old Pelagians, and divers other Heretiques will not give to God, that all that we have for matter of incouragement is of Grace.
Again, we may also observe another thing: the ground of mercy, which the Apostle here had expressed to the people of God, he makes it come by Grace, and not by the Law. But how cometh this grace to them? It cometh by Christ, and by the Gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ he is the meritorious cause of all this grace: the Gospel, that is the Revealer, the Preacher of this grace, the Instrument, whereby God doth make known and communicate it to us. In as much then as the Apostle makes the ground of all the mercy that believers have to be by grace, and that grace cometh by Christ and the Gospel, you may learn in the next place in the general, this instruction also. That
Again, we may also observe another thing: the ground of mercy, which the Apostle here had exprest to the people of God, he makes it come by Grace, and not by the Law. But how commeth this grace to them? It commeth by Christ, and by the Gospell. The Lord Jesus Christ he is the meritorious cause of all this grace: the Gospel, that is the Revealer, the Preacher of this grace, the Instrument, whereby God doth make known and communicate it to us. In as much then as the Apostle makes the ground of all the mercy that beleevers have to be by grace, and that grace commeth by Christ and the Gospel, you may learn in the next place in the generall, this instruction also. That
All the privileges and mercies that we do enjoy, they all come to us by Christ, and by his Gospel.