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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.
It discovers the dreadful Estate, and miserable Condition of all wicked men, the Children and Darlings of the World, who take content in it, and give content to it. The World, it is likely, may lay you in her Bosom, for the World will love her own: but ye be far enough from the Love of the Father, as ye be far from the knowledge of him. Hence a Sea of Misery breaks in upon thee, able to over-whelm thy Soul irrecoverably. If it can be once said, Thou knowest not the Father, there is enough said to sink thy heart in everlasting discouragement. In this Estate thou canst expect no good, for thou canst receive no good from the hand of the Lord, though he be the Father of Mercies, and God of all Consolation: There is none for thee, not one Blessing nor Comfort. For if God communicate any thing of himself unto the Sons of Men, it is by his Spirit, whose Office it is, To lead them into all Truth, John 16.13. and to seal them up in the Truth, unto the day of Redemption, Eph. 4. Al that is the Fathers, is Christs, and the Spirit takes of Christs, and so of the Fathers, and gives it unto such, for whom it is appointed, John, 16.15.
It discovers the dreadful Estate, and miserable Condition of al wicked men, the Children and Darlings of the World, who take content in it, and give content to it. The World, it is likely, may lay you in her Bosom, for the World wil love her own: but ye be far enough from the Love of the Father, as ye be far from the knowledg of him. Hence a Sea of Misery breaks in upon thee, able to over-whelm thy Soul irrecoverably. If it can be once said, Thou knowest not the Father, there is enough said to sink thy heart in everlasting discouragement. In this Estate thou canst expect no good, for thon canst receive no good from the hand of the Lord, though he be the Father of Mercies, and God of al Consolation: There is none for thee, not one Blessing nor Comfort. For if God communicate any thing of himself unto the Sons of Men, it is by his Spirit, whose Office it is, To lead them into all Truth, John 16.13. and to seal them up in the Truth, unto the day of Redemption, Eph. 4. Al that is the Fathers, is Christs, and the Spirit takes of Christs, and so of the Fathers, and gives it unto such, for whom it is appointed,