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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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2. By iniquity is meant also, that which followeth upon this, and that is guilt, that same guilt which cleaveth to the conscience of a man, upon every transgression of Gods Law. This is also meant by iniquity, as you may gather from that in Hebr. 8.12. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. What is here meant by Iniquity? Not the transgression of the Law of God, for God cannot but remember that ever, for all things past as well as to come, are present before him: But by not remembering iniquity is meant this, I will not charge upon them the guilt of their iniquity; I will acquit them from that judgement which by their iniquity they are bound over to. So that here by iniquity is meant that guilt which followeth the transgression of Gods Law.
2. By iniquitie is meant also, that which followeth upon this, and that is guilt, that same guilt which cleaveth to the conscience of a man, upon every transgression of Gods Law. This is also meant by iniquitie, as you may gather from that in Hebr. 8.12. I will be mercifull to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. What is here meant by Iniquitie? Not the transgression of the Law of God, for God cannot but remember that ever, for all things past as well as to come, are present before him: But by not remembring iniquity is meant this, I will not charge upon them the guilt of their iniquitie; I will acquit them from that judgement which by their iniquitie they are bound over to. So that here by iniquitie is meant that guilt which followeth the transgression of Gods Law.
3. By Iniquity is further meant, all that wrath which is deserved by breaking of Gods Law, that which they are bound over to, by the guilt: all that judgement which justly followeth the transgression of Gods Law, and that is slavery to Satan, and the vengeance of God here and hereafter. This is also meant by Iniquity, all temporal, spiritual, and eternal wrath, that righteously followeth upon the breach of Gods Law. Thereupon it is that you shall find in