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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.
I will show you a little in brief, how that by Christ we come to enjoy all the grace and favour we do enjoy. See first that place in Rom. 5.18, 19, 20. there the Text plainly showeth, that as all our misery, and all the displeasure of God came on us by one man, that is by Adam, so all the mercy and the favour of God, with all the comforts and privileges that we do enjoy, they come to us by the second man, that is, by Jesus Christ: you may read the place at your leisure, you shall find it express in the Text.
I will shew you a little in brief, how that by Christ we come to injoy all the grace and favour we doe injoy. See first that place in Rom. 5.18, 19, 20. there the Text plainly sheweth, that as all our misery, and all the displeasure of God came on us by one man, that is by Adam, so all the mercy and the favour of God, with all the comforts and priviledges that we doe injoy, they come to us by the second man, that is, by Jesus Christ: you may read the place at your leasure, you shall find it expresse in the Text.
This is it also you shall see as plainly expressed in the first ⟨p. 103⟩Verse of that Chapter; Being justified by faith we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into the grace wherein we stand: Observe, peace with God it cometh by Christ; access to that grace with God wherein we stand, is all by Jesus Christ.
This is it also you shall see as plainly exprest in the first ⟨p. 103⟩Verse of that Chapter; Being justified by faith we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also wee have access by faith into the grace wherein we stand: Observe, peace with God it cometh by Christ; access to that grace with God wherein we stand, is all by Jesus Christ.