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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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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.
One example you shall see of this in a passage of a Parable, Mark. 12. which makes good the Point in hand. A certain man, saith the Text, planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fat, and built a Tower; (here was much pains, and a great deal of cost bestowed) Well, he let out this vineyard to husbandmen, and went into a far country, and at the season he sent to the husbandmen, that he might receive of the fruit of the Vineyard: Did he receive any fruit? No, they beat one, and stoned another, and killed another, and all the messengers they sent away empty: At last, he sent his son, his well-beloved, but they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the ⟨p. 224⟩Vineyard. In a word, The Vineyard is the Church of God, and the Husbandmen were the Scribes and Pharisees, they were those to whom God as it were, had let out his Church: He sendeth his messengers, his servants the Prophets, rising early and sending them, his Apostles and Disciples to call for fruit, for the fruits of holiness, of faith and obedience, but they abused his servants, they made him no return of fruit, but when he looked for grapes, behold they brought forth wild grapes: At last the Lord sent his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, he came amongst them, he that spake as never man did speak, so that even all the world wondered at the gracious words which did proceed out of his mouth; certainly, saith God, they will reverence my Son, they will hear him, they will be governed by his directions, they will stoop at his command. No, they were then most outrageous and malicious against him, they all banded themselves together, Come, say they, let us slay him, they joined heart and hand, and all for his ruin.
One example you shall see of this in a passage of a Parable, Mark. 12. which makes good the Point in hand. A certain man, saith the Text, planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fat, and built a Tower; (here was much pains, and a great deal of cost bestowed) Well, he let out this vineyard to husbandmen, and went into a far countrey, and at the season he sent to the husbandmen, that he might receive of the fruit of the Vineyard: Did he receive any fruit? No, they beat one, and stoned another, and killed another, and all the messengers they sent away emptie: At last, he sent his son, his welbeloved, but they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the