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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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Culpable Ignorance, OR, The danger of Ignorance under Means.
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.
ISAI. 27.11. For it is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them, will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them, will show them no favour.
ISAI. 27.11. For it is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them, will not have mercie on them, and he that formed them, will shew them no favour.
IF you cast your eyes, my brethren, upon the beginning of this Chapter, you shall observe, that when the Prophet had discovered the fierce dealing of God with the enemies of his people, vers. 1. he doth from the second verse to the words of the Text, and so afterwards make known Gods gracious affection towards his own faithful servants, as also his dealing with those cursed Hypocrites, that live in the bosom of the Church. In a word (that I may not be long before I come to that which I desire to deliver to you) in the discovery of the Lords dealing, first with his own people, and then with others that live in the bosom of the Church, to whom he communicateth his ordinances, there are three things observable.
IF you cast your eyes, my brethren, upon the beginning of this Chapter, you shall observe, that when the Prophet had discovered the fierce dealing of God with the enemies of his people, vers. 1. he doth from the second verse to the words of the Text, and so afterwards make known Gods gracious affection towards his own faithfull servants, as also his dealing with those cursed Hypocrites, that live in the bosome of the Church. In a word (that I may not be long before I come to that which I desire to deliver to you) in the discoverie of the Lords dealing, first with his own people, and then with others that live in the bosome of the Church, to whom he communicateth his ordinances, there are three things observable.