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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.
Use. 1. Of Terror.
This discovers the woeful and miserable condition of such, who want this Gospel: But especially the heinousness of the sin, and the dreadful condemnation of such, who Oppose the Gospel. God hath shut up all under unbelief, in the Kingdom of darkness under the power of the Prince of darkness: they look out as prisoners through the Grates of Hell, and Infidelity; there is no possibility to help to a Key to open this Door, but the Key of the Gospel; they wilfully keep the Door bolted, and refuse the only help, which the Lord hath provided, Christ hath purchased with his Blood, appointed ⟨p. 9⟩and sanctified by his spirit, and doth promise to accompany for their deliverance, yea this they oppose. This was the doom and sentence which Paul passed upon them, Act. 13.46. Ye judg your selves unworthy of everlasting life, by putting away the word: Thou stoppest thine ear at the glad tidings of it, shuttest thine eyes at the righteousness thereof, Puttest by and castest away, withdrawest thy soul from under the prevailing power of that word.
This discovers the woeful and miserable condition of such, who want this Gospel: But especially the hainousness of the sin, and the dreadful condemnation of such, who Oppose the Gospel. God hath shut up al under unbelief, in the Kingdom of darkness under the power of the Prince of darkness: they look out as prisoners through the Grates of Hell, and Infidelity; there is no possibility to help to a Key to open this Dore, but the Key of the Gospel; they wilfully keep the Dore bolted, and refuse the only help, which the Lord hath provided, Christ hath purchased with his Blood, appointed ⟨p. 9⟩