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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.
Means are Three.
1. Keep the Conscience convinced, and the heart persuaded, that as all power is given to Christ in Heaven and Earth, so all good that is done to his in spiritual things, and all deliverances for his accomplished, are wrought by him, and he is ready for the relief of his. Act. 2.33. Know assuredly says Peter, That Christ, whom ye have crucified, him hath God raised, he hath ⟨p. 382⟩shed down that which ye see. I see him standing at the right hand of the Father. Know ye Devils, I see the glory or that mercy that did rescue me from their rage, else I had been cooped up with you in the chains or darkness.
1. Keep the Conscience convinced, and the heart perswaded, that as al power is given to Christ in Heaven and Earth, so al good that is done to his in spiritual things, and al deliverances for his accomplished, are wrought by him, and he is ready for the relief of his. Act. 2.33. Know assuredly saies Peter, That Christ, whom ye have crucified, him hath God raised, he hath ⟨p. 382⟩shed down that wh•ch ye see. I see him standing at the right hand of the Father. Know ye Devils, I see the glory or that mercy that did rescue me from their rage, els I had been cooped up with you in the chains or darkness.
Be it known unto you ye damned creatures, this is the Son of God, the glory of whose conquering Grace hath broke my flinty heart, or else I had burned in Hell with you: that wretched Creature that was proud, and is now humbled, as ye see: he that was estranged from God and Heaven, and is now called, converted, comforted, Know that Christ hath shed down that Grace ye now see. He hath done there great things.