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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.
Why should God thus, while his Church was under age, keep it under Tutors and Governors?
Why should God thus, while his Church was under age, keep it under Tutors and Governours?
The reason was this, That he might prepare the Church to receive the Doctrine of Christ and the Gospel; for the nature of man is so exceeding opposite to the doctrine of Christ and the Gospel, that if it had not been long framed by the tutoring of many hundred years by the Law, it had never been convinced of the necessity of salvation by Christ, and the Gospel. All these things you have laid down to us in Gal. 3. from Verse 19. to the 5th Verse of the fourth Chapter, wherein the Apostle openeth these things to us at large.
The reason was this, That he might prepare the Church to receive the Doctrine of Christ and the Gospel; for the nature of man is so exceeding opposite to the doctrine of Christ and the Gospel, that if it had not been long framed by the tutoring of many hundred yeers by the Law, it had never been convinced of the necessitie of salvation by Christ, and the Gospel. All these things you have laid down to us in Gal. 3. from Verse 19. to the 5th Verse of the fourth Chapter, wherin the Apostle openeth these things to us at large.
Thus briefly you have seen this Point also opened to us, That all the favour and privileges that the people of God enjoy, it is all by grace, that is, by Christ and by his Gospel.
Thus briefly you have seen this Point also opened to us, That all the favour and priviledges that the people of God enjoy, it is all by grace, that is, by Christ and by his Gospel.