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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.
But you may object, if so be all the grace and favour Gods people have had with God come by Christ, and by his Gospel; then how came they to enjoy it that lived before the coming of Christ, and the preaching of the Gospel, the Patriarchs and Fathers from Adam to Christ?
To this I answer, that as they (so many of them as were believers) had the same grace and favour with God that we have, so they also had the same Christ, and the Gospel that we have. Christ and the Gospel was as well made known to them as to us; and by Christ and the Gospel, they came to enjoy that grace with God, which they had, as well as we do.
To this I answer, that as they (so many of them as were beleevers) had the same grace and favour with God that we have, so they also had the same Christ, and the Gospel that we have. Christ and the Gospel was as well made known to them as to us; and by Christ and the Gospel, they came to enjoy that grace with God, which they had, as well as we doe.
Hereupon it is that Christ professeth that Moses and the writings of the Prophets did bear witness of him as he speaks in Joh. 5.46. And the Apostle Saint Paul speaking of the unbelieving Jews, layeth down the cause thereof, not to be a want of the revelation of Christ, in the writings of Moses and the Prophets; But (saith he, 2 Cor. 3.14.) their minds were blinded, for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, and even ⟨p. 104⟩unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Christ and the Gospel are revealed in the Old Testament as well as in the New, only here is the difference, there was a veil put over their minds that they could not see this Christ, and this Gospel that was revealed in the Old Testament. And therefore the same Apostle in