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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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we will walk in his paths, we will stoop unto the truth delivered, we will submit our selves to it, and conform our hearts and lives to the will of God revealed to us from thence. And you shall observe the holy Prophet David, as though there had been no Temple, no Priest, no Teacher besides, how his good soul is still breathing upward in many passages of the 119. Psalm, Lord teach me, Lord quicken me, Lord give understanding to thy servant, &c. He repaireth ma•nly and chiefly to the Lord for guidance and direction. Enough for the proof of the point.
we will walk in his paths, we will stoop unto the truth delivered, we will submit our selves to it, and conform our hearts and lives to the will of God revealed to us from thence. And you shall observe the holy Prophet David, as though there had been no Temple, no Priest, no Teacher besides, how his good soul is still breathing upward in many passages of the 119. Psalm, Lord teach me, Lord quicken mee, Lord give understanding to thy servant, &c. He repaireth ma•nly and chiefly to the Lord for guidance and direction. Enough for the proof of the point.
But a man may ask, after what manner must I hearken? Hearkening I told you implieth attention and obedience, ⟨p. 128⟩therefore you may remember, that I put them both together in the Doctrine, that it was our duty, both to attend to the voice of Christ, and to yield obedience unto it. But how must I do this? For the opening hereof give me leave to discover unto you three particulars, which are specially to be considered, and are required of every soul that would make conscience of discharging this duty.
But a man may aske, after what manner must I hearken? Hearkning I told you implyeth attention and obedience, ⟨p. 128⟩therefore you may remember, that I put them both together in the Doctrine, that it was our duty, both to attend to the voice of Christ, and to yeeld obedience unto it. But how must I doe this? For the opening hereof give me leave to discover unto you three particulars, which are specially to be considered, and are required of every soule that would make conscience of discharging this duty.