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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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4. However the Lord many times, for reasons best known to himself, and his infinite good pleasure, suffers some, and many of those, whom he will afterwards effectually call, to be overtaken with most loathsome abominations, yet he ever over-rules and over-works all those Hellish miscarriages of theirs, for the furtherance of his own work in them, when he seriously sets upon the accomplishment of it.
4. However the Lord many times, for reasons best known to himself, and his infinite good pleasure, suffers some, and many of those, whom he will afterwards effectually cal, to be overtaken with most loathsom abominations, yet he ever over-rules and over-works al those Hellish miscarriages of theirs, for the furtherance of his own work in them, when he seriously sets upon the accomplishment of it.
Sometimes there is no ways to cure Poison, but with Poison: no means to crush the pride and self-confidence and overweening conceit of a mans own worth, but to leave him to himself, that he may bedaub himself with some dirty and detestable distemper; that so his own ⟨p. 27⟩experience may evidence his own baseness, and force him to put his Mouth in the Dust, and cover himself with confusion: when, through his own self deceiving apprehension, he could never either see it, or bring his heart to be humbled for it before the Lord. Thus many, who in former times have soothed up themselves, with the glorious appearance of a formal profession, so that they could keep out, or wipe off, all the convictions that were presented before them: At length the Lord leaves them to some noisome lusts, one is overtaken with brutish Drunkenness, another with some base uncleanness: and so the breaking of the impostume, and the venting of those vile evils, constrains their consciences to condemn themselves, for rotten; when the evidence of the word could not: and this hath been the occasion of the through conversion of some men.
Somtimes there is no waies to cure Poyson, but with Poyson: no means to crush the pride and self-confidence and overweening conceit of a mans own worth, but to leave him to himself, that he may bedaub himself with some dirty and detestable distemper; that so his own