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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.
When Moses stood before Pharaoh, and his rod, by the immediate finger of God was turned into a Serpent, Pharaoh doth not sit kowne under the Miracle, but to make it of light esteem, he sends for his Magicians, who turn likewise their rods into Serpents, but Moses his rod devoured theirs, Yet saith the text Pharaohs heart was hardened, so it is with every carnal heart, when the word cometh home, and convinceth him, and fills his soul with terror, and trouble, then he send his ⟨p. 124⟩Magicians, carnal reasonings, and though the word of God doth eat up all those reasonings, yet the carnal heart goeth away satisfied, and with Pharaoh groweth harder and harder.
When Moses stood before Pharaoh, and his rod, by the immediate finger of God was turned into a Serpent, Pharaoh doth not sit kowne under the Miracle, but to make it of light esteem, he sends for his Magicians, who turne likewise their rods into Serpents, but Moses his rod devoured theirs, Yet saith the text Pharaohs heart was hardned, so it is with every carnall heart, when the word cometh home, and convinceth him, and fills his soul with terrour, and trouble, then he send his ⟨p. 124⟩Magicians, carnall reasonings, and though the word of God doth eat up all those reasonings, yet the carnall heart goeth away satisfied, and with Pharaoh groweth harder and harder.
Fourthly, and lastly, if by carnal reason they cannot defeat the truth, then they fall to down right opposition of it, laying violent hands upon it, and in despite of the truth do whatsoever their own wicked hearts suggest, as it was with the Children of Israel, when their proud hearts prompted them to ask a King, Samuel makes a gracious Sermon unto them to dissuade them from it, and he shows them the manner of their King, and how he should enslave them, and make their sons and ⟨p. 125⟩