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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.
The third property of grace is this, that grace delivereth us from under the curse, it fetcheth us out of condemnation. This is that which is expressed in Gal. 4.5. To redeem them that were under the Law, (and so under the curse) that we might receive the adoption of sons, and so the blessing of sons: therefore is that in Rom. 6.1. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, &c.
The third property of grace is this, that grace delivereth us from under the curse, it fetcheth us out of condemnation. This is that which is exprest in Gal. 4.5. To redeem them that were under the Law, (and so under the curse) that we might receive the adoption of sons, and so the blessing of sons: therefore is that in Rom. 6.1. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, &c.
Fourthly and lastly, The last property of grace is this, That grace, it doth hinder corruption from multiplying, from bringing forth fruit: grace doth destroy the Law, in regard of any power to multiply sin and corruption in us as it did before; grace doth subdue our iniquities, Micah 7.19. grace doth write the Law of God in our hearts; grace doth give us dispositions inward, answerable to the outward commands of the Law of God. So that by grace, when as the Law of God cometh with a command to do this; grace ⟨p. 113⟩makes us able to do it in some measure: when the command of God cometh with a prohibition not to do this; grace makes us able to abstain from it in some measure. Thus now grace destroying corruption, and making us able in some measure to obey the commands, it doth destroy that accidental property of the Law, where by it doth multiply and streng then corruption in us. And thus Grace is directly contrary to the Law, The Law came by Moses, but Grace and Truth through Jesus Christ.