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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.
Wilful Hardness: OR, The Means of Grace Abused.Willful Hardness: OR, The Means of Grace Abused.
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 former, before I come to the Point, you must suffer me a little to make way for my self, in the opening of two or three passages in the Text.
Two things there are therefore that we will briefly discuss.
Two things there are therefore that we will briefly discusse.
1. What is meant here by hardening the neck? 2. What it is to be a man of admonitions. We will not be long in either, only (as I said) a little to make way for the evident discovery of the point, which we mean to treat of.
1. What is meant here by hardning the neck? 2. What it is to be a man of admonitions. We will not be long in either, onely (as I said) a little to make way for the evident discoverie of the point, which we mean to treat of.
To harden the neck then, it is a similitude taken from Oxen that are to draw in the yoke, that when they are to come and bow their necks to the yoke, they begin to grow stubborn and stiff-necked, and refuse to come under the yoke as the Master requireth, and as he expects they should do, and as those that are taught will do, whole nature it is to take the yoke willingly and kindly. To harden the neck therefore is, to be stubborn and rebellious, not to come