A44344:1336
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.
2. Our Apprehensions, and Conceivings of God, hold proportion with his Dispensations of himself to us. There must be ever some print of some operation and impression of his Excellencies, or Relation left upon us, before any thing can be discerned: For he dwells in the Light that no Creature can attain unto: and to pry into his Secrets, which he hath reserved in his own Bosom, as indeed we should not (Secret things belong to the Lord, but things revealed, to us) so in truth, we cannot reach them, they are far beyond the scantling of our shallow Conceits.
Now the expressions which God leaves of his Fatherly Love and Faithfulness, are sound no where, but in the hearts of his, whom he calls unto himself: Them he takes into the Bosom of his Love: To them he communicates these Bosom Secrets, the Foot-steps whereof are to be found no where upon Earth, but in the Souls of the Faithful: Therefore they only can see the Print of them, they only come to know them.
Now the expressions which God leaves of his Fatherly Love and Faithfulness, are sound no where, but in the hearts of his, whom he cals unto himself: Them he takes into the Bosom of his Love: To them he communicates these Bosom Secrets, the Foot-steps whereof are to be found no where upon Earth, but in the Souls of the Faithful: Therefore they only can see the Print of them, they only come to know them.
The great Characters of Gods Power, Wisdom, and Bounty, are left instamped, and engraven upon each Creature; and therefore they may be seen of all, and read of all, and so known.
The great Characters of Gods Power, Wisdom, and Bounty, are left instamped, and engraven upon each Creature; and therefore they may be seen of al, and read of al, and so known.