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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.
USE, 1. Trial.
We may hereby try what metal our love is made of, whether it come from the God of Love, carry his likeness and superscription, that we may be sure, that he will own it at the great day, and we both now and then may find the undoubted comfort of it unto our Souls, we shall know the nature of it, by the efficacy and work of it. As it is in prime, cordial quintessences, if they be made of lively ingredients, they do not only warm the Mouth and heat the Stomach a little, but they search into all the Veins, clear all the passages, Purge all the Humours, and cleanse the Blood, that the Body is recovered to a lively and healthful constitution: But if it warm a little overly, and work no further, we conclude it, Its not the right, it hath not the right work. So with thy love, if it be like the love of God, it will have the like work; It aims ever at the glorious good of the thing or person beloved; stays not in these lower and inferior things, but in and by these, looks at those which be higher, and of a more heavenly excellency.
We may hereby try what mettal our love is made of, whether it come from the God of Love, carry his likeness and superscription, that we may be sure, that he will own it at the great day, and we both now and then may find the undoubted comfort of it unto our Souls, we shal know the nature of it, by the efficacy and work of it. As it is in prime, cordial quintessences, if they be made of lively ingredients, they do not only warm the Mouth and heat the Stomach a little, but they search into al the Veins, clear al the passages, Purg al the Humors, and cleanse the Blood, that the Body is recovered to a lively and healthful constitution: But if it warm a little overly, and work no further, we conclude it, Its not the right, it hath not the right work. So with thy love, if it be like the love of God, it wil have the like work; It aimes ever at the glorious good of the thing or person beloved; staies not in these lower and inferior things, but in and by these, looks at those which be higher, and of a more heavenly excellency.