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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.
The second Phrase is, Being often reproved. The word in the Original implieth, (as I said before) a man of admonitions, he that hath line upon line, and precept upon precept, admonitions upon admonitions; and therefore our English rendereth it well, A man often reproved, that is, one that hath not only been once counselled, and instructed, and reproved; but one upon whom the Minister is daily calling in the public Ordinance, one that is from Sabbath to Sabbath, at least, admonished, and persuaded, and entreated by the Minister of God, that is, continually, again and again, warned of the wrath to come. If such a man as this gainsay all these, and remain stubborn and rebellious, after so many admonitions and reproofs, then the judgement of God is ripe for him, and he is ripe for it, he shall be destroyed, saith the Text, the God of heaven will break him all in pieces (as the Psalmist speaks) and that suddenly, without remedy.
The second Phrase is, Being often reproved. The word in the Originall implyeth, (as I said before) a man of admonitions, he that hath line upon line, and precept upon precept, admonitions upon admonitions; and therefore our English rendreth it well, A man often reproved, that is, one that hath not onely been once counselled, and instructed, and reproved; but one upon whom the Minister is daily calling in the publike Ordinance, one that is from Sabbath to Sabbath, at least, admonished, and perswaded, and intreated by the Minister of God, that is, continually, again and again, warned of the wrath to come. If such a man as this gainsay all these, and remain stubborn and rebellious, after so many admonitions and reproofs, then the judgement of God is ripe for him, and he is ripe for it, he shall be destroyed, saith the Text, the God of heaven will break him all in peeces (as the Psalmist speaks) and that suddenly, without remedie.
So then the words being clear, the Point is thus much, viz.