A44344:1358
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.
REASONS, are three.
1. Consider the highest Fountain, and first author from whence their dispositions and operations do arise, both in our Saviour, in the Saints, in the World, and in the Wicked. There ye shall perceive the opposition to be in the highest strain, that can come within the reach of reason, or indeed can be in the reality of truth.
1. Consider the highest Fountain, and first author from whence their dispositions and operations do arise, both in our Savior, in the Saints, in the World, and in the Wicked. There ye shal perceive the opposition to be in the highest strain, that can come within the reach of reason, or indeed can be in the reality of truth.
Hither our Saviour looks, when he would discover the ⟨p. 410⟩rock, out of which they were hewn, and the first Pedigree of that profaneness and Wickedness which overflows in the hearts and lives of the ungodly. Joh. 8.38. When he would lead the wicked Jews to the Fountain, whence their cruelty and murderous carriage did proceed, he points at it with the Finger. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father. They Answer Abraham is our Father. Jesus saith unto them: If ye were Abraham's Children ye would do Abraham's works; but ye seek to kill me, and this did not Abraham. But ye do the deeds of their Father. They could not conceive what he meant: And therefore still reply; We are not born of Fornication, we have one Father, even God: Our Saviour again returns an undeniable evidence. If ye were of God, ye would love me for I came from God, nor came I of my self, but God sent me. But because all these were Riddles: he speaks out, and shows them the Root of their wretchedness. Verse, 44. Ye are of your Father the Devil: and the lusts of your Father ye will do; He was a murderer, and abode not in the truth: and what he says of one, he says of all sins in the like case. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is the Father of lies.