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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.
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, Rom. 5.10. The Law entered, that sin might abound; the Law doth cause the abounding of sin: there had never been so much sin in the world, if it had not been by the Law: not directly, but by occasion doth the Law multiply transgressions in the hearts of people. The Apostle, in Rom. 7.4, 5. compareth the Law to a Husband, the sinful heart to a Wife: that look as by the Husband, the Wife cometh to bring forth children, so by the Law, mans corrupt heart cometh to bring forth sins.
Againe, another property that is occasioned to the Law by sinne, 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 sinne in the hearts of people, for therefore it is, that the Apostle saith, Rom. 5.10. The Law entred, that sinne might abound; the Law doth cause the abounding of sinne: there had never been so much sinne in the world, if it had not been by the Law: not directly, but by occasion doth the Law multiply transgressions in the hearts of people. The Apostle, in Rom. 7.4, 5. compareth the Law to a Husband, the sinfull heart to a Wife: that look as by the Husband, the Wife commeth to bring forth children, so by the Law, mans corrupt heart commeth to bring forth sins.
If you ask how this cometh about?