A44344:1245
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.
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.
Its the greatest trade the Saints take up in Heaven; let us then begin Heaven upon Earth; take up our thoughts with that now, upon which we shall gaze through all eternity.
Its the greatest trade the Saints take up in Heaven; let us then begin Heaven upon Earth; take up our thoughts with that now, upon which we shal gaze through al eternity.
This is the end of all ordinances, the scope of our Praying, Hearing, Preaching, attendance upon all Duties: we preach for this, ye pray for this, That when all the Churches shall meet together we may come to the unity of the faith, and the acknowledgement of the Son of God. It was that Son of God, that pardoned my sin, quieted my conscience, comforted my Soul. And mine also say ye, or else I had perished: and mine also, or I had been everlastingly discouraged. When we shall never cease the seeing, admiring, adoring the glorious perfections of his Son; let us now begin to search after them;