A44344:1091
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.
1. Cure thee of all thy Fears, Unto which we are subject all our lives by reason of our own infirmities, and the world of evils with which we are compassed about, while we live here in this world; considering what our sins deserve, men and Devils intends, what God in justice may inflict, and our constant provocations incur, which are as it were a new mint of Plagues, which we may daily expect. We have felt somewhat in our selves, heard of more in others, and what's yet behind we know not.
1. Cure thee of all thy Fears, Unto which we are subject all our lives by reason of our own infirmities, and the world of evils with which we are compassed about, while we live here in this world; considering what our sins deserve, men and Devils intends, what God in justice may inflict, and our constant provocations incurr, which are as it were a new mint of Plagues, which we may daily expect. We have felt somwhat in our selves, heard of more in others, and what's yet behind we know not.
But we know what Devils can do, what our sins merit, what God in a righteous judgment may execute: So that the fear of what may be, is worse than that we feel and find for present.
Here then is our comfort; Our Saviour hath felt the worst that can be, borne all, and conquered all, drunk the dregs of the Cup, Grappled with the sting of death, ⟨p. 336⟩and the strength of the law; Triumphed over extremities so that there was no possibility he should be held, or we now hurt by them. There can be no destroying evil, there need be no fear.
Here then is our comfort; Our Savior hath felt the worst that can be, borne al, and conquered al, drunk the dregs of the Cup, Grapled with the sting of death,