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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 5, Exhortation to believers;
Use 5, Exhortation to beleevers;
To have our hearts ravished and our thoughts swallowed ⟨p. 22⟩up with everlasting admiration of this endeared love of the Lord Jesus to such poor creatures: That he should provide and reserve the rarities of the Riches of his Grace for such miserable, worthless Worms. As Philip in the like case.
To have our hearts ravished and our thoughts swallowed ⟨p. 22⟩up with everlasting admiration of this indeared love of the Lord Jesus to such poor creatures: That he should provide and reserve the rarities of the Riches of his Grace for such miserable, worthless Worms. As Philip in the like case.
Why wilt thou show thy self to us, and not unto the world? why pray for us, speak, intercede for us in Heaven, and not for the world? when there be so many wise, Rich, honourable, that thou never intendest any good unto, nor ever put test them within one sentence of thy prayer? Lord, who am I, silly Woman, Ignorant Child, disobedient, rebellious servant, that yet thou shouldest call me out of the world, and make it thy great work in Heaven, to keep me in the world, and bring me to Heaven?