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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.
There be some of Gods ordinary Courtesies which he extends in common to all Creatures; his Rain falls, his Sun shines upon good and bad. He gives Life, and Breath, and Being to all things, Acts, 17. Al things are at his finding, and the eyes of all things look to him, and he fills every living thing with his Goodness.
There be some of Gods ordinary Courtesies which he extends in common to al Creatures; his Rain fals, his Sun shines upon good and bad. He gives Life, and Breath, and Being to al things, Acts, 17. Al things are at his finding, and the eyes of al things look to him, and he fils every living thing with his Goodness.
There be also peculiar, and choice Favours, which he hath reserved for his Secret Ones, in the secret Conveyances of his Providences, which none know but his Favourites. The deep things of God, as Paul, 1 Cor. 2.10. The Spirit only searcheth these deep things. His everlasting Mercy, and Fatherly Faithfulness in Christ. These are deep things; and as no man knows what is in man, but the Spirit of man: so no man knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God.
There be also peculiar, and choyce Favors, which he hath reserved for his Secret Ones, in the secret Conveyances of his Providences, which none know but his Favorites. The deep things of God, as Paul, 1 Cor. 2.10. The Spirit only searcheth these deep things. His everlasting Mercy, and Fatherly Faithfulness in Christ. These are deep things; and as no man knows what is in man, but the Spirit of man: so no man knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God.