A44344:1340
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. Of Instruction.
1. Therefore it is not safe to lean to the Counsel, or be led by the Opinion of Carnal men, touching the doubts we have, or difficulties we find, concerning the Love of God unto our souls, and his Faithfulness in the performance of his gracious Promises. Alas, they know nothing of those things, how shall they be able to make us know them? They understood nothing themselves, and how shall they reach others? Is any so weak, and silly, that he would go to a blind man, to make him judg of Colours? or a deaf man of Sounds? or he that never knew the way, to be a Guide, to lead him the way? unless he were resolved to miss his way, and end also. True indeed, they may sometimes speak things by hearsay; but to speak things from grounded Knowledge and Experience, they cannot, because they have none.
1. Therefore it is not safe to lean to the Counsel, or be led by the Opinion of Carnal men, touching the doubts we have, or difficulties we find, concerning the Love of God unto our souls, and his Faithfulness in the performance of his gracious Promises. Alas, they know nothing of those things, how shal they be able to make us know them? They understood nothing themselves, and how shal they reach others? Is any so weak, and silly, that he would go to a blind man, to make him judg of Colors? or a deaf man of Sounds? or he that never knew the way, to be a Guide, to lead him the way? unless he were resolved to miss his way, and end also. True indeed, they may somtimes speak things by hearsay; but to speak things from grounded Knowledg and Experience, they cannot, because they have none.