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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.
First of all, that the Law doth curse every man that is under it, even unto Hell; this is that in the forenamed place, Gal. 3.13. As many as are under the Law are cursed, for cursed is every one that doth not all that is written in the book of the Law. Hence it cometh to pass, that the Law doth inflict damnation upon all them that are under it: Hence are these names given to the Law, 2 Cor. 3.6, 7, 9. In the 6. verse, the Letter killeth, that is, the Law killeth us. In the 7. verse, it is called, the ministration of death. In the 9. verse, it is called, the ministration of condemnation: all these names are given to the Law, because through mans fall there is occasioned a property to the Law, to kill, and to destroy, and to condemn.
First of all, that the Law doth curse every man that is under it, even unto Hell; this is that in the forenamed place, Gal. 3.13. As many as are under the Law are cursed, for cursed is every one that doth not all that is written in the book of the Law. Hence it commeth to passe, that the Law doth inflict damnation upon all them that are under it: Hence are these names given to the Law, 2 Cor. 3.6, 7, 9. In the 6. verse, the Letter killeth, that is, the Law killeth us. In the 7. verse, it is called, the ministration of death. In the 9. verse, it is called, the ministration of condemnation: all these names are given to the Law, because through mans fall there is occasioned a property to the Law, to kill, and to destroy, and to condemn.
Again, another property that is occasioned to the Law by sin, and by the fall of man, is this, that the Law doth multiply transgressions in the hearts and lives of people. This is a strange thing, therefore I pray observe the opening of it. I say, the property of the Law it is, that it doth multiply transgression and sin in the hearts of people, for therefore it is, that the Apostle saith,