A86531:444
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.
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.
For the opening of the point, and that ye may more clearly understand it. A question here would be resolved, What were the footsteps of the faith of Abraham? which way went he? This is a question, I say, worthy the scanning, and therefore (leaving the further confirmation of the point, as being already evident enough) I will come to it, that so you may know what to pitch and settle your hearts upon.
For the opening of the point, and that yee may more clearly understand it. A question here would be resolved, What were the footsteps of the faith of Abraham? which way went he? This is a question, I say, worthy the scanning, and therefore (leaving the further confirmation of the point, as being aleady evident enough) I will come to it, that so you may know what to pitch and settle your hearts upon.
I answer therefore,1 There are six footsteps of the faith of Abraham, which are the main things wherein every faithful man must do as Abraham did, in the work of faith, I mean, in his ordinary course: for if there be any thing extraordinary, no man is bound to imitate him therein; but in the work of faith, I say, which belongeth to all men, every man must imitate Abraham in these six steps, and then he is in the next door to happiness, the very next neighbour, as I may say, to heaven.
I aniwer therefore,1 There are six footsteps of the faith of Abraham, which are the main things wherein every faithfull man must doe as Abraham did, in the work of faith, I mean, in his ordinary course: for if there be any thing extraordinary, no man is bound to imitate him therein; but in the work of faith, I say, which belongeth to all men, every man must imitate Abraham in these six steps, and then he is in the next door to happinesse, the very next neighbour, as I may say, to heaven.
- 1