A44344:1077
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.
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1. TERROR To the wicked, the enemies to, and opposers of the Lord Jesus, and his Kingdom. See whom ye have despised, he is now advanced to all power, and therefore will use all his power for your ruin. Upon this ground Peter shook the hearts of the Jews. Act. 2.36. He now being exalted sheds abroad &c. Let the House of Israel know assuredly that this Jesus, whom ye have crucified, God hath raised, and made him Lord ⟨p. 333⟩and Christ. Math. 25.31. When Christ-shall come at the day of Judgment &c. He shall come with power and great glory, thousands before him, and ten thousand thousands ministering to him; Dan. 7.10. Rev. 5.11. And they shall creep into holes and clefts of the rocks, and corners of the Dungeons, and not be able to behold the dreadful looks of Christ. Rev. 6.15▪16. But he shall fetch them thence, drag them out of their Dungeons, draw them out of their holes. When it shall be said, they have feared, and fled, and hid themselves, bring hither, says Christ, mine enemies, those who have been enemies to my Grace, Gospel, Children, Glory, bring them hither, and slay them before my Face. And however the Lord Jesus abates much of the dreadful expressions of his direful anger, and almighty power; Now they are terrified, and then quieted. Now in horror, and then calmed, Yet then he shall destroy them from the glory of his power; that is from the expression of all his power, and that unto the utmost, for their ruin, Christ will do his best.