A44344:1501
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. Matter of Admiration.
See and be swallowed up with the wonderment of Gods love to such worthless ones, as we. Had he sent his letters to comfort, his Creatures to visit, his Angels to administer, it had been more than we worthless worms could have expected. So the Apostle. 1 Joh. 4.9, 10. In this was manifested the love of God towards us in that he sent his Son. If any man question his love, or desire to see the discovery of love: In this its manifested undeniably, infallibly. Love unmatchable, unconceivable, that he should send his own Son, from his own bosom, to such worthless dust.
See and be swallowed up with the wonderment of Gods love to such worthless ones, as we. Had he sent his letters to comfort, his Creatures to visite, his Angels to administer, it had been more than we worthless worms could have expected. So the Apostle. 1 Joh. 4.9, 10. In this was manifested the love of God towards us in that he sent his Son. If any man question his love, or desire to see the discovery of love: In this its manifested undeniably, infallibly. Love unmatchable, unconceivable, that he should send his own Son, from his own bosom, to such worthless dust.