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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.
Mark this I beseech you, It is not I, but the Text that saith as much. A man that is often reproved, and hardeneth his neck. What is it to harden the neck? I told you, to grow stubborn and stout-hearted, and to gainsay the truth of God, ⟨p. 222⟩to oppose it. And what is it to be often admonished? One Means is here specified, but all are understood, he that hath many means, and that hath many helps, and many encouragements, that hath counsel, and advice, and reproof, and persuasions, and instructions; If he harden his neck: So then it is plain, that he may harden his neck, and he doth harden his neck, and grow stubborn and rebellious, notwithstanding all those means, for that is presumed, and necessarily implied in the Text.
Mark this I beseech you, It is not I, but the Text that saith as much. A man that is often reproved, and hardneth his neck. What is it to harden the neck? I told you, to grow stubborn and stout-hearted, and to gainsay the truth of God, ⟨p. 222⟩to oppose it. And what is it to be often admonished? One Means is here specified, but all are understood, he that hath many means, and that hath many helps, and many incouragements, that hath counsell, and advice, and reproof, and perswasions, and instructions; If he harden his neck: So then it is plain, that he may harden his neck, and he doth harden his neck, and grow stubborn and rebellious, notwihstanding all those means, for that is presumed, and necessarily implyed in the Text.
The case then you see is clear, That wicked men that shall be destroyed, for whom God hath appointed sudden, and heavy desolation, and perdition, they grow hard-hearted and rebellious under the best means.
The case then you see is clear, That wicked men that shall be destroyed, for whom God hath appointed sudden, and heavie desolation, and perdition, they grow hard-hearted and rebellious under the best means.