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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.
Your only course now, my brethren, is to admit of no carnal reasonings, when the Word of God is plainly and powerfully discovered, when you see a miraculous hand of God in making known your hidden and secret sins, and laying open your estates, when God discovereth your sins in their own fearful and ugly shape; will you yield to fleshly imaginations, to think, alas, every thing is not Gospel that the Minister speaks, many wise men, and great Scholars, and Ministers too here are, that say the quite contrary. This is to hinder the power and efficacy of the Word of God. Admit therefore of no carnal counsel, send for no Magicians, when the Lords command is evident and plain, hear nothing against the Word of God, but yield and captivate your minds to the truths revealed.
Your onely course now, my brethren, is to admit of no carnall reasonings, when the Word of God is plainly and powerfully discovered, when you see a miraculous hand of God in making known your hidden and secret sinnes, and laying open your estates, when God discovereth your sinnes in their own fearfull and ugly shape; will you yeeld to fleshly imaginations, to think, alas, every thing is not Gospel that the Minister speakes, many wise men, and great Schollars, and Ministers too here are, that say the quite contrary. This is to hinder the power and efficacy of the Word of God. Admit therefore of no carnall counsell, send for no Magitians, when the Lords command is evident and plain, heare nothing against the Word of God, but yeeld and captivate your minds to the truths revealed.
The third Argument that will bring the heart to stoop to the Word of God, it is this, to consider the excellency and sovereign superiority of the Commandment of God.
The third Argument that will bring the heart to stoop to the Word of God, it is this, to consider the excellency and soveraign superiority of the Commandment of God.