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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 Lord hath passed the sentence, and that most Peremptory, and shows the deadly Malignity of that evil, by way of difference from all others. Math. 12.31. Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and Blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, in this world, nor in the world to come. i.e. There is no ⟨p. 26⟩Hope. It here cannot be pardoned: and at the great day he shall never be acquitted; neither here done, nor then declared. So that such a person hath the Tombstone of everlasting destruction turned upon him & sealed: past Hope and help. And therefore the Apostle puts it upon an impossibility. Heb. 6.4. How far that goes, I will not now dispute, whether in regard of the covenant of the Gospel, the counsel of the Lord, the Decree of the Almighty, that he shall never have Grace give him to repent: for then it should not so much aggravate the heinousness of the sin: because from impenitency and final perseverance in any sin, its not possible such should be recovered; and this great evil upon this ground should have no other impossibility than many other. And withal the impossibility should then lie in Gods counsel, and definitive purpose, not in the Nature of the evil, which answers not the terrible expression of the wrath of God in the Text.
The Lord hath passed the sentence, and that most Peremptory, and shews the deadly Malignity of that evil, by way of difference from all others. Math. 12.31. Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and Blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, in this world, nor in the world to come. i.e. There is no ⟨p. 26⟩Hope. It here cannot be pardoned: and at the great day he shal never be acquitted; neither here done, nor then declared. So that such a person hath the Tombstone of everlasting destruction turnd upon him & sealed: past Hope and help. And therefore the Apostle puts it upon an impossibility.