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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
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2. The Lord even so provides, that such means in an ordinary way of Providence, may be sent, continued, and dispensed to such, who never had a thought of them, enquired after them, or had a Heart to entertain them, when they are offered. Upon this ground the Lord appoints, and encourageth the Apostle. Act. 18.9, 10. Speak and hold not thy Tongue: Speak plainly and ⟨p. 25⟩fully, fear no mans frowns, regard no mans favours, no man shall do thee harm: for I have people in this City. Thus the Spirit stopped the passage into Bithynia; for when they assayed, the Spirit suffered them not. Act. 16.7. But Christ sends post, by an express in a Vision to Paul; A man of Macedonia appears, with this Petition in his Hand, subscribed by the Hearts of the messengers, Come into Macedonia, and help us. And when they came, the Issue shows their Errand, A poor Woman, a Purple-seller, and a Stubborn and Rebellious spirited Jailer, was all the Markets he made.
2. The Lord even so provides, that such means in an ordinary way of Providence, may be sent, continued, and dispensed to such, who never had a thought of them, enquired after them, or had a Heart to entertain them, when they are offered. Upon this ground the Lord appoints, and incourageth the Apostle. Act. 18.9, 10. Speak and hold not thy Tongue: Speak plainly and ⟨p. 25⟩fully, fear no mans frowns, regard no mans favors, no man shal do thee harm: for I have people in this City. Thus the Spirit stopped the passage into Bithynia; for when they assayed, the Spirit suffered them not. Act. 16.7. But Christ sends post, by an express in a Vision to Paul; A man of Macedonia appeares, with this Petition in his Hand, subscribed by the Hearts of the messengers, Come into Macedonia, and help us. And when they came, the Issue shewes their Errand, A poor Woman, a Purple-seller, and a Stubborn and Rebellious spirited Jailour, was all the Markets he made.