A44344:1225
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.
But now it's the whole employment of the Soul to attend upon him; the Soul hath none other to see, nothing else to do. Rev. 14.4. They follow the Lamb where ever be goes; see no Wife, nor Child, nor Friend, nor Honour, Pleasure, but Christ only; Old things are passed: Have none to love, to desire, to delight in, to be satisfied with, but Christ alone. Now we send our thoughts and affections upon other Errands. If a man knew nothing, loved nothing, needed nothing, but one thing, how would that carry him, command him, prevail with him?
But now it's the whol imployment of the Soul to attend upon him; the Soul hath none other to see, nothing else to do. Rev. 14.4. They follow the Lamb where ever be goes; see no Wife, nor Child, nor Friend, nor Honor, Pleasure, but Christ only; Old things are passed: Have none to love, to desire, to delight in, to be satisfied with, but Christ alone. Now we send our thoughts and affections upon other Errands. If a man knew nothing, loved nothing, needed nothing, but one thing, how would that carry him, command him, prevail with him?
3. How this brings in this Happiness.
Answ. Upon a double Ground: and here we have a double Reason of the Point.