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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.
The day is yet to dawn, the hour yet to come, that ever God spake to thy Soul, or plucked thee out of the world, As thou wert, thou art: of the Earth, and speakest of the Earth, in the old course, and led aside with old lusts;
The day is yet to dawn, the hour yet to come, that ever God spake to thy Soul, or plucked thee out of the world, As thou were't, thou art: of the Earth, and speakest of the Earth, in the old course, and led aside with old lusts;
Know thou must, Christ hath shut thee out of his Prayers, and thy Soul out of peace, and self out of Heaven, for ought any living can tell: and I do not say, how ⟨p. 21⟩sleepest thou, but how canst thou live, and hear and know this thy condition. That thou dost not sit down in silence, and thy Soul sink and die away within thee in everlasting discouragement, in the expectation of evil, that hangs over thy Head? and have thy life hang in doubt, that when thou goest our, thou shouldest never return, and when thou liest down, thou shouldest never rise up again? Why? there is nothing to hinder, but the hand of Justice should plague, and nothing to stay it: Thy sins and Devils to make a prey and spoil of thee, and nothing to hinder it.
Know thou must, Christ hath shut thee out of his Prayrs, and thy Soul out of peace, and self out of Heaven, for ought any living can tel: and I do not say, how ⟨p. 21⟩sleepest thou, but how canst thou live, and hear and know this thy condition. That thou dost not sit down in silence, and thy Soul sink and die away within thee in everlasting discouragement, in the expectation of evil, that hangs over thy Head? and have thy life hang in doubt, that when thou goest our, thou shouldest never return, and when thou liest down, thou shouldest never rise up again? Why? there is nothing to hinder, but the hand of Justice should plague, and nothing to stay it: Thy sins and Devils to make a prey and spoil of thee, and nothing to hinder it.