A44344:1031
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, 3.
Therefore be willing to die, and to go to Christ. The Members long to be with the Head, the Body where the Life is, our Life is in Christ; the Wife where the Husband is. As Thomas said, Let us go, and die with him: much more, let us die, to reign with him. If Christ be in Heaven, why are we on Earth? Says Paul, I desire to be dissolved, to be unclothed, to put off these rags, that I may put on the Robes of Immortality. We have been ⟨p. 324⟩too long with the world, our sins, &c. let us long to be with him.
Therefore be willing to die, and to go to Christ. The Members long to be with the Head, the Body where the Life is, our Life is in Christ; the Wife where the Husband is. As Thomas said, Let us go, and die with him: much more, let us die, to raign with him. If Christ be in Heaven, why are we on Earth? Saies Paul, I desire to be dissolved, to be uncloathed, to put off these rags, that I may put on the Robes of Immortality. We have been ⟨p. 324⟩too long with the world, our sins, &c. let us long to be with him.