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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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Use 3. Exhortation.
He prayed for this disposition, labour thou to attain it. He desired it of his Father in Heaven, endeavour thou to the utmost of that care and skill thou hast, in the use of all means to attain it upon earth. The Sum is: That the whole strength of the Soul should be wholly carried to God in Christ for all: not to any thing in our selves we have, or for any thing we can do (as Adam might have pleaded, I have done, I have deserved it) but wholly to be quickened and acted by the spirit of God through Christ.
He prayed for this disposition, labor thou to attain it. He desired it of his Father in Heaven, indeavor thou to the utmost of that care and skill thou hast, in the use of all means to attain it upon earth. The Sum is: That the whol strength of the Soul should be wholly carried to God in Christ for all: not to any thing in our selves we have, or for any thing we can do (as Adam might have pleaded, I have done, I have deserved it) but wholly to be quickened and acted by the spirit of God through Christ.
The Soul should be like the Herb Heliotropium, the Nature whereof is such, as the philosopher observes, It turns the face of it towards the Sun, what way soever it turns: In the morning looks to the East, the Sun rising: In the evening to the West, the Sun setting. So it should be with the believing sinner, the face and Eye of the Soul ever towards God in Christ.