A44344:1023
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union believers have with God and Christ, and the glorious privileges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nigh.A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
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.
USE 1. Of Instruction.
Therefore they who have made choice of a Christ, have no cause to be ashamed. If he were a base Christ, ye might have some colour to seek another, to make a change: but it's not so. But though he went from the Cross to the Grave, yet he went from thence to Heaven, and there is now in the highest Honour. His suffering was but his entering into Glory, nay, the addition to his Glory: therefore that should not so much discourage, as content, and cause us to bless God for our Portion.
Therefore they who have made choyce of a Christ, have no cause to be ashamed. If he were a base Christ, ye might have some color to seek another, to make a change: but it's not so. But though he went from the Cross to the Grave, yet he went from thence to Heaven, and there is now in the highest Honor. His suffering was but his entring into Glory, nay, the addition to his Glory: therefore that should not so much discourage, as content, and cause us to bless God for our Portion.
A dead Saviour was better to Joseph of Arimathea, than his life: his reproaches better than the riches of the World to Moses.
A dead Savior was better to Joseph of Arimathea, than his life: his reproaches better than the riches of the World to Moses.