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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.
But the Faithful look not to the Love of a Father merely, but to the Love of his Faithfulness, and that will not fail, not shall they ever fall from it; and therefore ye shall observe in the Description of our Saviour, which is laid forth at large in the first of the Revelation, in the Sum and full discovery of the excellency of Christ, that the Lord appears, and presents him to each Church in the expression of Excellency, which answered the particular necessity of the Churches Condition.
But the Faithful look not to the Love of a Father meerly, but to the Love of his Faithfulness, and that wil not fail, not shal they ever fal from it; and therefore ye shal observe in the Description of our Savior, which is laid forth at large in the first of the Revelation, in the Sum and ful discovery of the excellency of Christ, that the Lord appears, and presents him to each Church in the expression of Excellency, which answered the particular necessity of the Churches Condition.
Smyrna was under great pressures, and the Devil cast some of them into Prison, so that they were in a dying Condition: therefore Christ appears to them as first and last, who was dead, and is alive, Chap. 2.8. and therefore could ever preserve them, and would recover them from death.
To the Church to Thyatira, because they grew sluggish, and tolerated the Woman Jezebel to set her Forgeries to sale, and vent her Follies, and Filth, and Profaneness under the name of a Prophetess: therefore Christ appears to that Church, as one that hath Eyes like a flame of Fire, who will search into all Secrets, verse 18. and Feet of Brass that will trample all to dust, against whom his indignation proceeds.
To the Church to Thyatira, because they grew sluggish, and tolerated the Woman Jezebel to set her Forgeries to sale, and vent her Follies, and Filth, and Prophaness under the name of a Prophetess: therefore Christ appears to that Church, as one that hath Eyes like a flame of Fire, who wil search into al Secrets, verse 18. and Feet of Brass that wil trample al to dust, against whom his indignation proceeds.