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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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Reader,
Thou hast here set forth to thy view the last memorial (for ought I know) in this kind, of that Reverend Divine Mr. Thomas Hooker, 1who now rests from his labours, being dead in the Lord. And though this present work be but small in quantity, yet it comprehends a great many divine Truths: For thou shalt in this, as in a glass, see thine own condition, be it what it will: If thou be indeed a child of God, thou shalt find him herein a Barnabas, a son of Consolation to thee, in discovering what thy Privileges are, and what thy practise is, or should be. But if thou be yet in thy unregenerate ⟨image 3⟩estate, he will prove a Boanerges, a son of Thunder, in showing the danger of Non-proficiencie under the means of grace and knowledge, and in wilful hardness against admonition, and reproof. These Sermons are upon several Texts of Scripture, which (I suppose) will prove the more delightful for the variety, which is pleasing to all. And though there be no great dependence of these Sermons each upon other, yet the whole without forcing, may be reduced to these three Heads: Dignity. Duty. Danger.
THou hast here set forth to thy view the last memoriall (for ought I know) in this kind, of that Reverend Divine Mr. Thomas Hooker, 1who now rests from his labours, being dead in the Lord. And though this present work be but small in quantitie, yet it comprehends a great many divine Truths: For thou shalt in this, as in a glasse, see thine owne condition, be it what it will: If thou be indeed a child of God, thou shalt find him herein a Barnabas, a son of Consolation to thee, in discovering what thy Priviledges are, and what thy practise is, or should be. But if thou be yet in thy unregenerate ⟨image 3⟩estate, he will prove a Boanerges, a son of Thunder, in shewing the danger of Non-proficiencie under the means of grace and knowledge, and in wilfull hardness against admonition, and reproof. These Sermons are upon severall Texts of Scripture, which (I suppose) will prove the more delightfull for the variety, which is pleasing to all. And though there bee no great dependance of these Sermons each upon other, yet the whole without forcing, may be reduced to these three Heads: Dignitie. Dutie. Danger.