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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.
Be they both unbelievers now for the present, adversaries to his Grace, and opposers of his word, and the work of his spirit, and it may be with greater out-rage and violence, the one more than the other? And yet the Lord may do nothing but in love, and out of mercy to the one; intercede now in Heaven, order all creatures, and overwork all occasions in Earth, for the good of the one, and do nothing for the other; but there is a hand of Justice, and the Poison of his displeasure, which first or last, either in the entrance, or in the Issue, will be an ingredient in every passage of Gods providence towards them: Let them both have the same outward blessing, its Diet to the one, surfeit to the other poison to the one, and a preservative to the other: the one will be quickened and enlarged to God by it with thankfulness, the other becomes proud, insolent towards men, careless and negligent towards God.
Be they both unbeleevers now for the present, adversaries to his Grace, and opposers of his word, and the work of his spirit, and it may be with greater out-rage and violence, the one more than the other? And yet the Lord may do nothing but in love, and out of mercy to the one; intercede now in Heaven, order al creatures, and overwork al occasions in Earth, for the good of the one, and do nothing for the other; but there is a hand of Justice, and the Poyson of his displeasure, which first or last, either in the entrance, or in the Issue, wil be an ingredient in every passage of Gods providence towards them: Let them both have the same outward blessing, its Diet to the one, surfet to the other poyson to the one, and a preservative to the other: the one wil be quickned and inlarged to God by it with thankfulness, the other becomes proud, insolent towards men, careless and negligent towards God.
Let them both be under the same Rod and correction, the one will be made more humble, and the Heart will be wrought to a more watchful care to walk more awfully before the Lord: the other will be made more frampful and perverse and hardened in a self willy erring frame of Spirit. Thus some expound that of Paul, Gal. 1.15. God who had separated him from the Womb, had set him a part in his counsel and purpose to such a service, and even from the Womb, in his education and course of life, and studies, he was severing and suiting of him for his own turn.