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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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Again in the second place, Christ he gave himself up to the sufferings of soul, to the sufferings of the wrath of God for believers, and this is a great deal more. Christ he did not only suffer in body, but he also suffered in soul. You may gather it from that in Mar. 14.32, 33, 34. He taketh with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy, and saith unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death; and afterward he goeth from them and prayeth three times, that if it were possible the cup might be taken from him. If so be that Christs suffering was only the wrath of men, and bodily tortures, Christ had been very pusillanimous, and faint-hearted, that would be so fearful at the apprehension of death. We have many men that can expect death without any amazement or fainting of heart, therefore if there had been no more then the bodily suffering, Christ had been weaker then men, who was thus amazed, and affrighted, and prayed three times that the Cup might pass from him.
Again in the second place, Christ he gave himself up to the sufferings of soul, to the sufferings of the wrath of God for beleevers, and this is a great deal more. Christ he did not only suffer in body, but he also suffered in soul. You may gather it from that in Mar. 14.32, 33, 34. He taketh with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavie, and saith unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowfull unto death; and afterward he goeth from them and prayeth three times, that if it were possible the cup might be taken from him. If so be that Christs suffering was only the wrath of men, and bodily tortures, Christ had been very pusillanimous, and faint-hearted, that would bee so fearfull at the apprehension of death. We have many men that can expect death without any amazement or fainting of heart, therefore if there had been no more then the bodily suffering, Christ had been weaker then men, who was thus amazed, and affrighted, and prayed three times that the Cup might passe from him.
And further, that Christ suffered in soul will appear by that in