A44344:182
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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3. He intercepts all our prayers and performances, which we tender up unto God, and perfumes them with the sweet Odours of the incense of his own Intercession, and so they find acceptance, and make a pleasant savour in the Nostrils of the Almighty. As it is with brackish Water, which comes from the Sea, passing through some precious Gold or Silver Mines, it becomes, not only sweet and purified, but of Sovereign virtue and taste. So it is with our services, being brackish with many base distempers, which cleave to them and us, being intercepted by the Intercession of our Saviour, and passing through the Rich mines of his Merits and obedience, they prove marvellous pleasing and acceptable to the Lord. Rev. 8.3. The prayers of the Saints are offered up, upon the Golden Altar of our Saviours precious Merits. As an Advocate in the Court, if any of his Clients commend their cause to scanning, though they be weak and unskilful, yet he can ripen them, and being Rectified, present them so ordered, as that they may find acceptance with the Lord, through the influence of this Application of the virtue of his Merits.
3. He intercepts all our prayers and performances, which we tender up unto God, and perfumes them with the sweet Odors of the incense of his own Intercession, and so they find acceptance, and make a pleasant savor in the Nostrils of the Almighty. As it is with brackish Water, which comes from the Sea, passing through some precious Gold or Silver Mines, it becomes, not only sweet and purified, but of Soveraign vertue and tast. So it is with our services, being brackish with many base distempers, which cleave to them and us, being intercepted by the Intercession of our Saviour, and passing through the Rich mines of his Merits and obedience, they prove marvailous pleasing and acceptable to the Lord. Rev. 8.3. The prayers of the Saints are offered up, upon the Golden Altar of our Saviors precious Merits. As an Advocate in the Court, if any of his Clients commend their cause to ska•ning, though they be weak and unskilful, yet he can ripen them, and being Rectified, present them so ordered, as that they may find acceptance with the Lord, through the influence of this Application of the vertue of his Merits.