A44344:1302
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
Verse 25-26 › Point 2 › Application 3: USE, 3. A word of Reproof.
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, 3. A word of Reproof.
It shows the heinousness of the sin of unbelief in the Saints departing from God. Who have had a God faithful to them, and yet they not place their faith in him, hath God ever failed? did ye ever seek, ever humble your selves, ever trust in him in vain? why have ye done ⟨p. 395⟩thus? how unkindly, how unreasonably have ye dealt with him? Ask your Fathers and they will tell you, ask your own hearts and they can testify: hath he spoken and not performed? nay hath he not been better than his word, even abundant in goodness and truth? So Samuel. 1. Sam. 12.7. So God pleads, Jer. 2.5. What Iniquity have your Fathers sound in me, That they are gone far from me &c. Be astonished at this ye Heavens, and be horribly confounded, saith the Lord. Verse, 12, 13.
It shews the hainousness of the sin of unbeleef in the Saints departing from God. Who have had a God faithful to them, and yet they not place their faith in him, hath God ever failed? did ye ever seek, ever humble your selves, ever trust in him in vain? why have ye done ⟨p. 395⟩thus? how unkindly, how unreasonably have ye dealt with him? Ask your Fathers and they wil tel you, ask your own hearts and they can testifie: hath he spoken and not performed? nay hath he not been better than his word, even aboundant in goodness and truth? So Samuel. 1. Sam. 12.7. So God pleads, Jer. 2.5. What Iniquity have your Fathers sound in me, That they are gone far from me &c. Be astonished at this ye Heavens, and be horribly confounded, saith the Lord. Verse, 12, 13.