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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.
1. That the first especial scope of Prayer should be for such things that do more especially concern us.
Whether it be in regard of any thing which respects ⟨p. 3⟩the Glory of God, the furtherance of his truth, or the good and benefit of such, whose conditions or relations do most nearly touch us; for thus Prayer serves the end best, for which it is appointed by God, and for which it should be used by us, to help forward the occasions that be under our hands: Prayer is like the passing boat of the Ferry, it helps all Travellers, but it attends them next, that come first; So it was with Jacob, it plied God for the particular, and especially where the pinch lay, Gen. 32.10.11. So Eleazar, good Lord make it hit right to day. Gen. 24.12. And it seems it was that which God complains of Isa. 64. At least he condemns in Joshua, that his hand was in the wrong box. Jos. 7.10. quorsum hoc? not that he fasted, but that he searched nor, examined not the sin, and sought not the reformation of that which indeed did especially concern him.
Whether it be in regard of any thing which respects ⟨p. 3⟩the Glory of God, the furtherance of his truth, or the good and benefit of such, whose conditions or relations do most neerly touch us; for thus Prayer serves the end best, for which it is appointed by God, and for which it should be used by us, to help forward the occasions that be under our hands: Prayer is like the passing boat of the Ferry, it helps al Travellers, but it attends them next, that come first; So it was with Jacob, it plyed God for the particular, and especially where the pinch lay,