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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.
Object. But it will be said; do not we see by proof and experience; that even the dearest servants of the Lord, before their conversion pervert even the bounty and blessing of the Lord, to the increase of their sin and hasting of their ruin? The learning and wisdom of Paul lifts up his Heart in pride, and sets on his spirit to persecute the Church. He profited more than his equals: and breathed out threatenings more than they all. How are these then fruits of mercy, when they are thus accursed to a man? and indeed can be no other, for an unbelieving Heart will suck Poison out of the sweetest blessing the Lord bestows.
Object. But it wil be said; do not we see by proof and experience; that even the dearest servants of the Lord, before their conversion pervert even the bounty and blessing of the Lord, to the increase of their sin and hasting of their ruin? The learning and wisdome of Paul lifts up his Heart in pride, and sets on his spirit to presecute the Church. He profited more than his equals: and breathed out threatnings more than they al. How are these then fruits of mercy, when they are thus accursed to a man? and indeed can be no other, for an unbeleeving Heart wil suck Poyson out of the sweetest blessing the Lord bestows.
Answ. They are blessings as they come from God, and as he give them, they prove Curses; as the Heart that is yet graceless abuseth them: they are preservatives, as they come from the Hand of the almighty, and he administers them: they are turned to Poison, as a corrupt Heart perverts them to its own hurt. As the Physician out of love and wisdom administers a wholesome potion, but a foul stomach turns it all into matter of an ill Humour, and so a Disease.
Answ. They are blessings as they come from God, and as he give them, they prove Curses; as the Heart that is yet graceless abuseth them: they are preservatives, as they come from the Hand of the almighty, and he administers them: they are turned to Poyson, as a corrupt Heart perverts them to its own hurt. As the Physitian out of love and wisdom administers a wholsom potion, but a foul stomack turns it al into matter of an ill Humor, and so a Disease.