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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.
But this is the Lords manner: if there be but one Grain of Corn in many heaps of Chaff, he will never leave winnowing, rather than lose it: send he will, Messenger after Messenger, until he hath gathered that into his barn. Onesimus, a Runagate from his Master, without the reach of government of Gospel: God coops him up in Prison, and casts Paul thither also, that so he may come to the speech of him.
But this is the Lords manner: if there be but one Grain of Corn in many heapes of Chaff, he wil never leave winnowing, rather than lose it: send he wil, Messenger after Messenger, until he hath gathered that into his barn. Onesimus, a Runnagate from his Master, without the reach of government of Gospel: God coops him up in Prison, and casts Paul thither also, that so he may come to the speech of him.
3. He keeps them by his restraining Grace, and some strong hand of Providence, sometimes from grosser sins (I say some of those that shall believe from some loathsome and heinous evil) but always, from falling into that sin against the Holy Ghost: because that is a Disease which admits no Remedy, a Dungeon of that depth from whence there is no deliverance: beyond the reach of the work of Redemption, as that which comes not within the compass of mercy, and the Riches of the compassion of the Almighty.
3. He keeps them by his restraining Grace, and some strong hand of Providence, sometimes from grosser sins (I say some of those that shal beleeve from some loathsome and hainous evil) but alwaies, from falling into that sin against the Holy Ghost: because that is a Disease which admits no Remedy, a Dungeon of that depth from whence there is no deliverance: beyond the reach of the work of Redemption, as that which comes not within the compass of mercy, and the Riches of the compassion of the Almighty.