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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.
Reason, 1.
Because the Gospel alone reveals that which may satisfy our spiritual necessities, and answer the expectation ⟨p. 6⟩of our faith, and the desires of our Souls: upon the sense and feeling of those evils, which as unsupportable, would otherwise sink them, This is the Argument the Apostle gives, Rom. 1.16. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of God; For it is the power of God unto Salvation: and why? Because by it the righteousness of God is revealed, from faith to faith. i. e. from one degree of faith unto another.
Because the Gospel alone reveales that which may satisfy our spiritual necessities, and answer the expectation ⟨p. 6⟩of our faith, and the desires of our Souls: upon the sense and feeling of those evils, which as unsupportable, would otherwise sink them, This is the Argument the Apostle gives, Rom. 1.16. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of God; For it is the power of God unto Salvation: and why? Because by it the righteousness of God is revealed, from faith to faith. i. e. from one degree of faith unto another.
A man is unrighteous, and possessed of the power and presence of it, and under the hand of revenging justice by reason of the same.