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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.
Use. 1.
We have here matter of wonderment at the Rich and unconceivable compassion of the Father to miserable undone man: who should be careful to provide for his good, who is so negligent to provide for his own? Spares nothing •o purchase his Salvation, who hath done what he can to destroy himself. Had he sent the meanest of his creatures to succour us, his servants to visit us, his Angels to administer to us, it had been more, than we could have expected: But to send his Son out of his own Bosom, yea out of his own Bowels, to work out our Redemption, to make known the way of life, and and to make it good unto our Souls; Nature would not do this, reason cannot reach this mercy, the heart would not dare to beg this. Sit we down in the everlasting admiration of his mercy. As Elizabeth and Mary, ⟨p. 65⟩when he came to visit her, Luk. 1.43. Whence comes it that the mother of my Lord should come to me? So thou. As David, when he attended the dealing of the Lord towards lost man, who had made himself the most vile and forlorn of all his creatures; looks upon his own baseness and Gods kindness. Lord what is man, that thou shouldest be mindful of him, and the Son of man thou shouldest regard him? So: What is man? so base, so sinful, so vile, so miserable. As Saul, who ever found his enemy and slue him not? but who ever found his enemy, and sent his Son to him?
We have here matter of wonderment at the Rich and unconceiveable compassion of the Father to miserable undone man: who should be careful to provide for his good, who is so negligent to provide for his own? Spares nothing •o purchase his Salvation, who hath done what he can to destroy himself. Had he sent the meanest of his creatures to succour us, his servants to visit us, his Angels to administer to us, it had been more, than we could have expected: But to send his Son out of his own Bosom, yea out of his own Bowels, to work out our Redemption, to make known the way of life, and and to make it good unto our Souls; Nature would not do this, reason cannot reach this mercy, the heart would not dare to beg this. Sit we down in the everlasting admiration of his mercy. As Elizabeth and Mary,