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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, 3. Examination.
Know whether our Faith be of the right make or no. Ask whence came it? where hadst thou thy Faith? by what word? If it came the right way, It came by preaching the Gospel.
It will show thee, 1. Thou hadst once none. 2. That thou art not able to believe. Jam 1.18. By bis own good will begat be us, by the word of truth.
It wil shew thee, 1. Thou hadst once none. 2. That thou art not able to beleeve. Jam 1.18. By bis own good wil begat be us, by the word of truth.
If thou canst say; I heard thus and thus of a Christ, and so I believed: then it is in thy will to believe, not in Gods will that begets thee. 3. It will show thee, that Faith is made of the immortal Seed of the word, 1 Pet. 1.23. that is the Spirit in the promise; That as a man is made up of the Seed which enters his constitution: so made up of promises. Hither belongs that of Eph. 5.30. We are Flesh, of his Flesh, and Bone, of his Bone. i. e. As the woman was made of the Rib of Adam: So Faith hath its flesh and bones out of the promise: and the root of it is in Christ, for the first stroke of it.