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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.
You shall observe this in a passage of the story of the men of Sodom, Gen. 19.9. When the cursed Sodomites came about the house, and would have taken the Angels that came to Lot, Lot he came out to them, and spake very lovingly to them, but because that which he said, tended to cross them in their wicked and unnatural courses, mark how they answered him: Stand back, say they, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a Judge, now will we deal worse with thee than with them: and they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. And why was all this? because his arguments were good and seasonable, by which he advised them against their wicked purpose, because he opposed them in that wicked course of theirs, therefore they could not now hold themselves, but burst out into a strange distemper of spirit, We will now (say they) deal worse with thee, than with them.
You shall observe this in a passage of the story of the men of Sodom, Gen. 19.9. When the cursed Sodomites came about the house, and would have taken the Angels that came to Lot, Lot he came out to them, and spake very lovingly to them, but because that which he said, tended to crosse them in their wicked and unnaturall courses, mark how they answered him: Stand back, say they, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a Judge, now will we deal worse with thee than with them: and they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came neer to break the door. And why was all this? because his arguments were good and seasonable, by which he advised them against their wicked purpose, because he opposed them in that wicked course of theirs, therefore they could not now hold themselves, but burst out into a strange distemper of spirit, We will now (say they) deal worse with thee, than with them.
And so in Acts 7. It is a very observable place, vers. 56. When Stephen had made a long relation to the Jews of the rebellion and stubbornness of their Fathers, they heard him