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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The first is Gods special care of, and his tender love and fatherly affection to those that love and fear his Name, that ⟨p. 192⟩labour to approve their hearts and ways to him, that are called to the profession of his truth and walk answerably thereunto; and that continueth to the seventh verse, namely, That the Lord will keep them, and water them every moment, that he will keep them night and day, &c.
The first is Gods speciall care of, and his tender love and fatherly affection to those that love and fear his Name, that ⟨p. 192⟩labour to approve their hearts and waies to him, that are called to the profession of his truth and walk answerably thereunto; and that continueth to the seventh verse, namely, That the Lord will keep them, and water them every moment, that he will keep them night and day, &c.
Secondly, As the Prophet expresseth Gods special care of his servants, so withal he manifesteth a secret kind of displeasure that was in God, even toward those that belong unto him, because of the carelessness, and fruitlessness that was among them, therefore he was pleased to lay his correcting hand upon them, yet still in measure, with abundance of patience, and in much compassion towards them; and all for their special good, not to confound, but to humble and better them. And this we have from the 7th to the end of the 9th verse, where the Prophet, showeth, what is the fruit of affliction to those that belong unto God By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit, to take away his sin: As if he should say, Howsoever the Lord loveth his vineyard, yet he will prune it, not to destroy it, but to make it the more fruitful: He only will take away the superfluous branches, those inordinate lusts that appear in the lives of his servants. This is the main issue and special benefit of afflictions to the godly, to subdue their corruptions, to purge them, to make them walk more circumspectly before God.