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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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Mark, rather then he would leave his Saviour, he would leave his life, and though men would have hindered him, yet was resolved to have Christ howsoever, though he lost his life for him: Oh let me have my Saviour, and take my life.
Mark, rather then he would leave his Saviour, he would leave his life, and though men would have hindred him, yet was resolved to have Christ howsoever, though he lost his life for him: Oh let me have my Saviour, and take my life.
The last step of all is this, When the soul is thus resolved not to dodge with God, but to part with any thing for him: then in the last place there followeth a readiness of heart to address a mans self to the performance of whatsoever duty God requireth at his hands; I say, this is the last step, when without consulting with flesh and blood, without hammering upon it, as it were, without awkwardness of heart, there followeth a prestness to obey God, the soul is at hand. When Abraham was called, Behold, saith he, here I am, Gen. 22.1. And so Samuel, Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth, 1 Sam. 3.9. and so Ananias, Behold, I am here Lord, Acts 9.10. The faithful soul is not to seek, as an evil servant that is gone a roving after his companions, that is out of the way when his master should use him, but is like a trusty servant that waiteth upon his master, and is ever at hand to do his ⟨p. 175⟩pleasure. So you shall see it was with Abraham, Heb. 11. 8. When the Lord commanded him to go out of his country, He obeyed, and went out, not knowing whither he went; he went cheerfully and readily, though he knew not whither; as who should say, if the Lord call, I will not question; if he command, I will perform what ever it be. So it must be with every faithful soul: we must blind the eye of carnal reason, resolve to obey, though heaven and earth seem to meet together in a contradiction, care not what man, or what devil saith in this case, but what God will have done, do it: This is the courage and obedience of faith. See how Saint Paul, in the place before named,