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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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Now there is no receiving of Christ, but you must receive whole Christ, the coat of Christ was never divided, much less is the person of Christ: if Christs coat and person was not divided, much less the Offices of Christ: So that if to believe be to receive Christ, then to believe is to receive whole Christ in all his Offices. You see then what this faith is, it is to go out of ones self, and to entertain Christ, to be in particular for us our only King, and Priest and Prophet; and therefore to give up our selves to Christ, as subjects to be guided by him as by our Sovereign: and as Scholars in all things to be taught by him as by our Master; and for to give up our selves to him alone to expect atonement, and to expect favour from God through his Priesthood. This is to believe.
Now there is no receiving of Christ, but you must receive whole Christ, the coat of Christ was never divided, much lesse is the person of Christ: if Christs coat and person was not divided, much lesse the Offices of Christ: So that if to beleeve be to receive Christ, then to beleeve is to receive whole Christ in all his Offices. You see then what this faith is, it is to goe out of ones self, and to entertain Christ, to be in particular for us our onely King, and Priest and Prophet; and therefore to give up our selves to Christ, as subjects to be guided by him as by our Soveraign: and as Schollers in all things to be taught by him as by our Master; and for to give up our selves to him alone to expect attonement, and to expect favour from God through his Priesthood. This is to believe.
The Properties of this Faith, the signs of it, by which you may know that you are them for whom Christ gave himself, you shall find in Scripture to be these.
First of all, Faith it is said to purify the heart, Acts 15.9