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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.
These wandering sheep, that are gone astray from the walks of the Lord, yet he must bring: he must pluck the Adulterer from his lusts, and the Drunkard from his Cups, and worldling, who hath been Buried in his earthly occasions, these shall hear his voice; they are within his Ken, and under his care, and he provides for ⟨p. 28⟩their good, though they intend no good unto themselves. So Christ to Paul; (he is then pitying, while he is persecuting; he comes to save him, when he purposeth to destroy himself:) why persecutest thou me? Act. 9. So, Again he sends a Physician to him. Ananias, go &c. vers. 11.
These wandering sheep, that are gone astray from the walks of the Lord, yet he must bring: he must pluck the Adulterer from his lusts, and the Drunkard from his Cups, and worldling, who hath been Buried in his earthly occasions, these shall hear his voice; they are within his Ken, and under his care, and he provides for ⟨p. 28⟩their good, though they intend no good unto themselves. So Christ to Paul; (he is then pitying, while he is persecuting; he comes to save him, when he purposeth to destroy himself:) why persecutest thou me? Act. 9. So, Again he sends a Physitian to him. Ananias, go &c. vers. 11.
Reas. 1. From the Sovereignty of Gods will, who looks at nothing in the creature, for which he should be moved to do good unto it, but only his good will and pleasure, according to which •e curves out his compassion as suits with his own liking. Rom. 11.7. The Election hath obtained it: its not in the power of Israel. And therefore hence it is, He shows mercy, because he will show mercy: and he it is that raiseth up a mighty Salvation for his people, when they were in the depths of their sins and confusions also.