A44344:1178
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, 4. Of Exhortation.
If Christ affectionately desire our presence, let us long to be with him, to be out of the Pest-House of the world, where we have been infected: out of this prison of our corrupt Nature, where we have been deeply annoyed with the Body of death, and the stench of this carcass of abominations we bear about with us. Long we for the consummation of the marriage, long for this day, that our Saviour so much desires. Our Saviour longs for our company, worthless, Wretched that we be, though he have not need of us, and was ever happy without us, lies in the Bosom of his Father, and hath been his delight from Eternity, who hath millions of Angels to attend and serve him.
If Christ affectonately desire our presence, let us long to be with him, to be out of the Pest-House of the world, where we have been infected: out of this prison of our corrupt Nature, where we have been deeply annoyed with the Body of death, and the stench of this carcase of abominations we bear about with us. Long we for the consummation of the marriage, long for this day, that our Savior so much desires. Our Savior longs for our company, worthless, Wretched that we be, though he have not need of us, and was ever happy without us, lies in the Bosom of his Father, and hath been his delight from Eternity, who hath millions of Angels to attend and serve him.