A44344:1271
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.
If it be said, He becomes a Debtor to his own Fidelity; so also he becomes Debtor to the Bounty and Goodness of his own Nature. For it was from Gods Justice that he was made fit to execute, and keep the Covenant; and it was from the goodness of his Nature, he made him so: and therefore is only bound to the goodness of his own Nature, in whatever Covenant he enters with him.
We cannot be profitable to God; as a man is profitable to his Neighbour, to give him something he wanted: but we may be profitable in furthering Gods ends, by that which we have received from God. But I will not meddle with this.
We cannot be profitable to God; as a man is profitable to his Neighbor, to give him somthing he wanted: but we may be profitable in furthering Gods ends, by that which we have received from God. But I wil not meddle with this.
2, To be righteous therefore, in the Second place, is to be just mour Promises, when we do what we speak. As in our ordinary Language; he is a man that is just in his word, he is a just man of his promise. And thus the Scripture, Psal. 31.1. and 115.1. and 143.11. therefore the Promise is called the Word of his Righteousness. Psal. 119.23. In this lost Condition, in which forlorn man is, and in the Covenant of the Gospel, in which lies all our Comfort, we have nothing to plead in regard of our selves, but the faithful Word of Gods Promise: but in regard of Christ, I find the Scripture joins them together,