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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.
The Third Hindrance. When we please our selves with the certainty of what we have, and settle upon our own sufficiency, and think we can make a shift: and therefore lay aside the care of a Christ, because that dale is mown, that danger is over, and fall hand-pat to other things. The full Soul despiseth the Honey-Comb. Wind and raw Humours cloy the Stomach. As Bears will live many months, and suck the moisture of their Claws.
The Third Hindrance. When we please our selves with the certainty of what we have, and settle upon our own sufficiency, and think we can make a shift: and therefore lay aside the care of a Christ, becauss that dale is mown, that danger is over, and fal hand-pat to other things. The ful Soul despiseth the Hony-Comb. Wind and raw Humors cloy the Stomach. As Bears wil live many months, and suck the moisture of their Claws.
Helps are Three.
The First Help. Make sure of our interest in Christ. And maintain it. I go to your God, and my God, your Father and my Father. Joh. 20.17. No man will leave the poorest cottage, the meanest provision, where he is, for the uncertain Hopes of a palace, when he knows not whether ever he shall enjoy it. Ye know the place and the way. Joh. 14. And therefore they desire not to stir. He that knows he hath a Father to go to, he goes freely.
The First Help. Make sure of our interest in Christ. And maintain it. I go to your God, and my God, your Father and my Father. Joh. 20.17. No man will leave the poorest cottage, the meanest provision, where he is, for the uncertain Hopes of a palace, when he knows not whether ever he shal injoy it. Ye know the place and the way.