A44344:1240
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, 3. Of Direction.
What Price we should put upon the knowledge of Christ, how much desire it, what Endeavour to attain it.
What Price we should put upon the knowledg of Christ, how much desire it, what Indeavor to attain it.
Prize it above Heaven, desire it more than Heaven, endeavour to attain it rather than Heaven it self; for indeed it is better. There were no glory in Heaven, but that we behold this glory of Christ. Thus Paul desires. Phil. 3.10. This the Saints have counted the peculiar evidence of Gods favour, as Moses. Exod. 33.18.
Prize it above Heaven, desire it more than Heaven, indeavor to attain it rather than Heaven it self; for indeed it is better. There were no glory in Heaven, but that we behold this glory of Christ. Thus Paul desires. Phil. 3.10. This the Saints have counted the peculiar evidence of Gods favor, as Moses. Exod. 33.18.