A44344:1290
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, 1. Instruction.
Out of Gods Fatherly Love, look for Afflictions, Miseries, Changes, and Necessities to attend us in our daily Course; because this is one part of Gods Faithfulness, and according to that he dispenseth his Fatherly Love, Psal. 119.75. I know thy Judgments are right, and ⟨p. 393⟩thou out of very Faithfulness, hast afflicted me; out of Faithfulness hast disparaged me, hast brought me to great extremities, afflicted me in the world, that thou mightest not condemn me with the world.
Out of Gods Fatherly Love, look for Afflictions, Miseries, Changes, and Necessities to attend us in our dayly Course; because this is one part of Gods Faithfulness, and according to that he dispenseth his Fatherly Love, Psal. 119.75. I know thy Judgments are right, and ⟨p. 393⟩thou out of very Faithfulness, hast afflicted me; out of Faithfulness hast disparaged me, hast brought me to great extremities, afflicted me in the world, that thou mightest not condemn me with the world.
The Psalmist accounts he cannot, in a surfeit, but Diet: in rankness of Blood, but bleed: in strength of distempers, but purge. Its part of his Faithfulness to be true to his rule, and that's health.