A44344:1168
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, 2. Of Reprehension.
It condemns both the Spirits and Practices of such, who cannot abide the presence, much less prize the communion, and company of the Saints. Christ is not at rest in Heaven without them: and they are in a Hell, count themselves in a Prison, while the are in the place, and the presence where they be. Certainly Christ is deceived, or thou art justly to be condemned, as one who hast not the heart of Christ, the Grace and Spirit of Christ in thee, and that one day thou shalt find. They shall ever be with Christ, and thou that canst not endure their society in the Kingdom of Grace, thou shalt never have their company in the Kingdom of Glory. Such is the exquisite Constitution, and Sovereign temper of the Irish Mould, that there, poisonous Vermin, Toads, and Spiders, and such like, they die presently, if confined to the compass of the Earth, and therefore they forthwith leave the Mould, lest they lose their lives. So here, if thou countest it a kind of death to be confined to the holy Society, and gracious, and Spiritual communion of the Saints, it's certain, Thou hast the poison of a profane, and a graceless heart within thee. They went out from us (says the Apostle) because they were not of us; had they been of us, had they grown upon the same root, the Lord Jesus, knit one to another by the same Spirit, ⟨p. 360⟩They would never have departed from us.
It condemns both the Spirits and Practices of such, who cannot abide the presence, much less prize the communion, and company of the Saints. Christ is not at rest in Heaven without them: and they are in a Hell, count themselves in a Prison, while the are in the place, and the presence where they be. Certainly Christ is deceived, or thou art justly to be condemned, as one who hast not the heart of Christ, the Grace and Spirit of Christ in thee, and that one day thou shalt find. They shal ever be with Christ, and thou that canst not indure their society in the Kingdom of Grace, thou shalt never have their company in the Kingdom of Glory. Such is the exquisite Constitution, and Soveraign temper of the Irish Mold, that there, poysonous Vermin, Toads, and Spiders, and such like, they die presently, if confined to the compass of the Earth, and therefore they forthwith leave the Mold, lest they lose their lives. So here, if thou countest it a kind of death to be confined to the holy Society, and gracious, and Spiritual communion of the Saints, it's certain, Thou hast the poyson of a prophane, and a graceless heart within thee. They went out from us (saies the Apostle) because they were not of us; had they been of us, had they grown upon the same root, the Lord Jesus, knit one to another by the same Spirit,