A44344:1346
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.
But it's the depth of thy Misery, thou canst not receive the Spirit.
1. Thou canst receive nothing of the Father, though it were given thee, John, 14.17. I will send the Comforter, whom the World cannot receive, because it doth not see, nor know him. This is thy Condition right: Thou canst not see, nor know the Spirit, and consequently, nor the Father: therefore not receive him, and therefore receive no good. The Spirit will not take the Mercy of a Father to pardon thee; the Love of the Father to support; the Peace of the Father to quicken; Grace of a Father to purge, and sanctify thy corrupt ⟨p. 406⟩heart. The holy Spirit, would take of Christs, and so of the Fathers, and give to thee: But thou art a worldly, wicked wretch, and thou canst not receive the Spirit, nor Christ, nor Mercy, nor Love, if thou hadst them laid before thee.
1. Thou canst receive nothing of the Father, though it were given thee, John, 14.17. I will send the Comforter, whom the World cannot receive, because it doth not see, nor know him. This is thy Condition right: Thou canst not see, nor know the Spirit, and consequently, nor the Father: therefore not receive him, and therefore receive no good. The Spirit wil not take the Mercy of a Father to pardon thee; the Love of the Father to support; the Peace of the Father to quicken; Grace of a Father to purge, and sanctifie thy corrupt ⟨p. 406⟩heart. The holy Spirit, would take of Christs, and so of the Fathers, and give to thee: But thou art a worldly, wicked wretch, and thou canst not receive the Spirit, nor Christ, nor Mercy, nor Love, if thou had'st them laid before thee.