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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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the course of his life is not with so much power and fullness of grace, it may be, as another's, yet there is the same true grace, and the same practise in the kind of it for truth, however in degree it differ.
the course of his life is not with so much power and fulnesse of grace, it may be, as anothers, yet there is the same true grace, and the same practise in the kind of it for truth, however in degree it differ.
Here by way of caution I will suggest too things to you. 1. That howsoever all believers have the self same nature of faith, yet all must not look to have the same measure of faith, and the same degree of works. 2. That faith doth not perform all its works at one time, but groweth to a ripeness upon several occasions. A Child is a perfect man in regard of parts, though not of degrees: he is able to eat, and to see, though he cannot walk and talk; yet because he hath a reasonable soul as well as others, he will walk and talk like others in due time: So howsoever many of the Saints of God have not attained to those great actions of grace that others have, yet having the same spirit and principle of grace within, they shall be enabled hereafter to a further discharge of those holy services that God requireth. Thus you see the point confirmed by reason; if all the Saints of God are engrafted into Christ indifferently, if all have the same ground of faith, and the same spirit to work it, and to make it work, they must needs have the same actions and fruits of faith, because (I say) they have the self same causes of their faith.
Here by way of caution I will suggest too things to you. 1. That howsoever all beleevers have the selfe same nature of faith, yet all must not look to have the same measure of faith, and the same degree of works. 2. That faith doth not performe all its works at one time, but groweth to a ripenesse upon severall occasions. A Child is a perfect man in regard of parts, though not of degrees: he is able to eat, and to see, though he cannot walk and talk; yet because he hath a reasonable soule as well as others, he will walk and talk like others in due time: So howsoever many of the Saints of God have not attained to those great actions of grace that others have, yet having the same spirit and principle of grace within, they shall be inabled hereafter to a further discharge of those holy services that God requireth. Thus you see the point confirmed by reason; if all the Saints of God are ingraffed into Christ indifferently, if all have the same ground of faith, and the same spirit to work it, and to make it work, they must needs have the same actions and fruits of faith, because (I say) they have the selfe same causes of their faith.