A44344:1309
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.
The wicked and ungodly of the world,1 they know not the Fatherly Love of God, which he in faithfulness dispenseth towards his.
- 1Doct.
They know him not as a Righteous Father, though they may, and happily do know him, as a God.
This our Saviour takes as granted, and gives it as the reason of all that wretched proceeding of the ungodly against the Saints in all Ages. Joh. 16.3. These things they will do unto you, because they have not known. ⟨p. 397⟩the Father, nor me. Joh. 15.12. These things will they do unto you for my Names sake, because they knew not him that sent me. And this is not only true of those, Who are of mean place and parts, who happily neither had helps to instruct them, nor abilities to improve such means of knowledge, as might lead them to the understanding of the Father: As they spake of the baser sort: This People that know not the Law: A company of Poor, silly, deluded, sottish Creatures, that never had teaching and training up in the knowledge of the Lord: But our Saviour affirms it of such, who thought their penny good Silver, and prided themselves in the profession & knowledge of the truth, nay Challenged both interest and acceptance in God as a Father.