A44344:1370
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
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and he must conclude, he shall find contention and opposition. Al his Policy will not work his Peace. It's folly to expect, and it's madness to promise it, That Reconciliations, and Contradictions should meet. Who walked in greater Prudence and Innocency, than our Saviour; beyond the exception of Envy it self: and yet he was not beyond Opposition, and that most fierce, which he found in the World.
and he must conclude, he shal find contention and opposition. Al his Policy wil not work his Peace. It's folly to expect, and it's madness to promise it, That Reconciliations, and Contradictions should meet. Who walked in greater Prudence and Innocency, than our Savior; beyond the exception of Envy it self: and yet he was not beyond Opposition, and that most fierce, which he found in the World.
2. We must not judg the worse of mens Persons and Profession, because of that universal opposition they find abroad. It's the portion of Christ, and that which all those that are like him, must expect. It was the Sect of the Saints, and such as followed the Rule of the Lord, of whom they confessed, as a thing commonly known. This Sect is spoken against, every where, and yet no Sect sincere but that, Acts, 28.21. Al men persecuted, and spake evil of such, of whom the Word, and our Saviour speaks Blessedness: Blessed are ye, when all men persecute you, and speak evil of you, for my Names sake, Matth. 5.10. They may as justly, and reasonably challenge Gods Name guilty, and blame-worthy, as those who profess it, because that is most of all opposed, and condemned, when men are reviled for that. Therefore it is a shallow, and mis-guided Conceit of some who are ignorant, to make such Inferences. Certainly, all is not right, there is some more than ordinary failings in his way, a shrewd suspicion his course is faulty, else how comes it he should be opposed, and spoken against by so many, so universally. The World is up in Arms against him. So it was against Patriarchs, Prophets, Disciples, and Christ. Therefore the Lord hates the World, prays