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The saints guide, in three treatises
The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercy, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnal mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercie, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnall mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.
London: printed for John Stafford over against Brids Church, 1645
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.
Secondly, by force of Argument, in the words of the ⟨p. 90⟩text, showing that no man can stand righteous before God, by works, because the best works that a man can do of himself, are wicked and unjust, and therefore punished of God, for all men out of Christ stand guilty both of ungodliness and unrighteousness, & so are subject to condemnation, therefore they must needs seek righteousness in some other: his Argument runneth thus. If no man by the works of the Law can appease the Wrath of God, then by the works of the Law, no man can be saved, but by the works of the law, no man can appease the Wrath of God, therefore by the works of the Law, no man can be saved, this he propounds in the text, and ⟨p. 91⟩prosecutes in the Chapter following.
Secondly, by force of Argument, in the words of the ⟨p. 90⟩text, shewing that no man can stand righteous before God, by workes, because the best workes that a man can doe of himselfe, are wicked and unjust, and therefore punished of God, for all men out of Christ stand guilty both of ungodlinesse and unrighteousnes, & so are subject to condemnation, therefore they must needs seek righteousnesse in some other: his Argument runneth thus. If no man by the workes of the Law can appease the Wrath of God, then by the workes of the Law, no man can be saved, but by the workes of the law, no man can appease the Wrath of God, therefore by the workes of the Law, no man can be saved, this he propounds in the text, and ⟨p. 91⟩prosecutes in the Chapter following.
In the words of the text, we may observe in the general these two parts.
In the words of the text, we may observe in the generall these two parts.