A44344:1237
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, 1. Instruction.
We have here a Cordial against Death. This should make the Saints willing to die, that they may gaze upon the unmovable glory of a Christ, and be made truly and ⟨p. 380⟩gloriously happy thereby. It was Davids longing from that little glimpse he had once found. Psal. 63.1, 3. My Soul thirsteth &c. That I may see thee, as sometimes I have seen thee. So say thou, I have seen the Lord in his word, when he humbled me; in his promises, when he hath comforted me, in his sacraments when he strengthened me; Oh that I may once see him, as he is. The glory of that Wisdom, that I may never err more, the glory of that mercy, that I may never fear, stagger any more, that Grace, that I may never be foiled any more. Thus Job, I know my Redeemer &c. The mariner will be content to split the Vessel if there be no other way to get to the Haven.
We have here a Cordial against Death. This should make the Saints willing to die, that they may gaze upon the unmovable glory of a Christ, and be made truly and ⟨p. 380⟩gloriously happy thereby. It was Davids longing from that little glimpse he had once found. Psal. 63.1, 3. My Soul thirsteth &c. That I may see thee, as somtimes I have seen thee. So say thou, I have seen the Lord in his word, when he humbled me; in his promises, when he hath comforted me, in his sacraments when he strengthened me; Oh that I may once see him, as he is. The glory of that Wisdom, that I may never erre more, the glory of that mercy, that I may never fear, stagger any more, that Grace, that I may never be foiled any more. Thus Job, I know my Redeemer &c. The marriner wil be content to split the Vessel if there be no other way to get to the Haven.