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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, 2. Instruction and Comfort.
Therefore this word of the Gospel shall undoubtedly be preserved and published, and that until the end of the world; as long as the Lord Christ hath any to be gathered, any of his to be brought home to himself by a saving Faith. They shall believe by this, therefore they shall have this, maugre all the malice, the power and policy of Hell, the rage and restless opposition of all the instruments of Satan. That word cannot be falsified, This Prayer cannot be frustrated, and therefore, This work cannot be hindered. Seem it never so improbable, never so impossible in our Eyes, and feeble apprehensions Measure not the power and Faithfulness and wisdom of the Lord, by the scantling of our shallow apprehensions: but know, he hath said it, and he will do it.
Therefore this word of the Gospel shal undoubtedly be preserved and published, and that until the end of the world; as long as the Lord Christ hath any to be gathered, any of his to be brought home to himself by a saving Faith. They shal beleeve by this, therefore they shal have this, maugre al the malice, the power and policy of Hel, the rage and restless opposition of al the instruments of Satan. That word cannot be falsefied, This Prayer cannot be frustrated, and therefore, This work cannot be hind•ed. Seem it never so improbable, never so impossible in our Eyes, and feeble apprehensions Measure not the power and Faithfulness and wisdom of the Lord, by the scantling of our shallow apprehensions: but know, he hath said it, and he wil doe it.