A44344:1149
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. Of Direction.
How we may gain the Gift of Glory from the hand of God. 1. Set his Love on work, and that will set his Grace, Power, and Spirit on work, to be enlarged in all the glorious operations thereof. Go, go to this, 2 Thes. 3, 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the Love of God. This will give God no rest: This made him send his Son, and set his Counsel on work, to contrive all for thy good. By this thou mayest plead, and wilt certainly prevail, John, 16. I will not say, I will ask the Father, for the Father himself loveth you, q. d. though I shall speak a good word, yet there is that which will do it, and that it may be more effectually. That Love sent me, set me on work, therefore I need not set that on work. As David to Jonathan, 1 Sam. 20.8. Thou shalt deal kindly, for thou hast brought thy Servant into Covenant with God. When Boas his heart was towards Ruth, Naomi tells her, Ruth, 3. last, He will never rest, until he bath done the thing.
How we may gain the Gift of Glory from the hand of God. 1. Set his Love on work, and that wil set his Grace, Power, and Spirit on work, to be enlarged in al the glorious operations thereof. Go, go to this, 2 Thes. 3, 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the Love of God. This wil give God no rest: This made him send his Son, and set his Counsel on work, to contrive al for thy good. By this thou maiest plead, and wilt certainly prevail, John, 16. I will not say, I wil ask the Father, for the Father himself loveth you, q. d. though I shal speak a good word, yet there is that which wil do it, and that it may be more effectually. That Love sent me, set me on work, therefore I need not set that on work. As David to Jonathan,