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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.
4. This will remove the guilt of all thy Sins, which seems to over-whelm, and under which thou goest up and down, as a condemned man, and sinkest in the daily apprehensions of Wrath, and expectation when thou shalt be arraigned, and condemned by the righteous Sentence of Gods revenging Justice. Satan accuseth, Conscience gives in witness against thee, and the Justice of God passeth Sentence. Look up to this Glory that Christ stands possessed of now in Heaven, and all these ⟨p. 339⟩Accusations, will vanish immediately, nor will once appear to plead against a believing sinner. Upon this ground, Paul flings out the Gantlet against all Adversaries, and there is not an Action that can pass, nay, not so much as a motion made against him, that can find audience in Court, Rom. 8.33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the Charge of Gods Chosen? it's God that justifies, nay, it's Christ that hath died, nay, rather risen again, nay, sits at the right hand of God. Justice cannot condemn, Christ hath satisfied, and is freed, and now is at Gods right hand, and is at the better hand with Justice, triumphs there; Devils cannot cavil, they are silenced; Conscience accuse, that is answered; nay, those daily failings which might seem to interrupt the Terms of Agreement betwixt God and the Soul, and make new Controversies: These are taken up, and intercepted by the Lord Jesus. Nay, the main Pith of this Glory was, as ye have read before, That the immediate execution of Gods whole Counsel towards the Sons of Men, is by his means, comes through his hands. And if there be any thing against his Members, his Spouse, he will be sure to stop that proceeding. So Paul disputes, Rom. 5.9. If reconciled by his Death, how much more shall we be saved by his Life?
4. This will remove the guilt of all thy Sins, which seems to over-whelm, and under which thou goest up and down, as a condemned man, and sinkest in the dayly apprehensions of Wrath, and expectation when thou shalt be arraigned, and condemned by the righteous Sentence of Gods revenging Justice. Satan accuseth, Conscience gives in witness against thee, and the Justice of God passeth Sentence. Look up to this Glory that Christ stands possessed of now in Heaven, and al these ⟨p. 339⟩