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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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For the first, What is meant by iniquity. The Word in the Original, it is Transgression, That he might redeem us from all transgression: It is a going beside the Law, a violating and breaking of the Law of God. It is well translated iniquity, for it is an evil, for the Law of God is only good, and therefore going beside the Law must be evil. It is injurious to God, dishonourable to him, therefore it is called iniquity.
For the first, What is meant by iniquitie. The Word in the Original, it is Transgression, That he might redeem us from all transgression: It is a going beside the Law, a violating and breaking of the Law of God. It is well translated iniquitie, for it is an evill, for the Law of God is onely good, and therefore going beside the Law must be evill. It is injurious to God, dishonourable to him, therefore it is called iniquitie.
But yet this transgression of the Law, or iniquity, as it is here called, it is to be taken largely, not only for the act of iniquity, the act of breaking the Law, but for all the consequences, and for all the concomitants of it. The transgression of the Law with all the Effects of it, is here meant by iniquity. And therefore by iniquity here are three things meant.
But yet this transgression of the Law, or iniquitie, as it is here called, it is to be taken largely, not only for the act of iniquitie, the act of breaking the Law, but for all the consequences, and for all the concomitants of it. The transgression of the Law with all the Effects of it, is here meant by iniquitie. And therefore by iniquitie here are three things meant.
1. The transgression of the Law of God, that which we ⟨p. 23⟩