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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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Secondly, Whatsoever any faithful Minister shall speak out of the Word, that is also the voice of Christ. The Texts are many that are to this purpose: Give me leave to touch but one or two of them, 2 Cor. 1•.3. Ye seek a proof, saith the Apostle, of Christ speaking in me, which to you-wards is not weak, but is mighty in you: Implying, that whatsoever is spoken out of the word of God, what truth soever is delivered to us by the mouth of his Ministers, agreeable to the word, Christ himself speaks in them. Therefore our Saviour is plain, Luke 10.16. He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth ⟨p. 136⟩me, despiseth him that sent me. That which the Ministers of God speak, the God of Heaven himself speaks: and they that despise their ministry, the God of Heaven will require it, even as if he himself should speak from Heaven, and men should reject his words. The Apostle Peter saith, that the Lord Jesus, by the power of his Spirit, went and preached in the time of Noah to the Spirits that are now in Hell, 1 Pet. 3.29. to those people that were disobedient before the flood, to whom Noah preached partly by his practise, and partly by his directions, Christ himself spake, even by that Spirit whereby he quickeneth all things. So then the point is evident.
Secondly, Whatsoever any faithfull Minister shall speak out of the Word, that is also the voice of Christ. The Texts are many that are to this purpose: Give me leave to touch but one or two of them, 2 Cor. 1•.3. Ye seek a proof, saith the Apostle, of Christ speaking in me, which to you-wards is not weak, but is mightie in you: Implying, that whatsoever is spoken out of the word of God, what truth soever is delivered to us by the mouth of his Ministers, agreeable to the word, Christ himself speaks in them. Therefore our Saviour is plain, Luke 10.16. He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth ⟨p. 136⟩