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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.
Therefore do three things.
1. Be Dex•rous in our apprehensions to see the footsteps of our Saviour and be so well acquainted with his passages, that we may perceive his whispers and know him at a turn, though we •ee but his back parts. 2. Use no means nor entertain any, but such as come by his own appointment. Because those that come not from him, lead not to him. Col. 2.10. We stand complete in him. Math. 17.5. Hear him, and none but him. As the Prophet to the King of Judah, Go not with the King of Israel, for God is not with him. So, go not out in the use of such means, for God is not in them. 3. Look at him, as sent on purpose for this work Joh. 6.26. This is the work of God, that ye believe on him, whom the Father hath sent. This answers all. If the Father appoint him, who shall gainsay? It the Son hath undertaken it, how can it fail? If all power be in his hand, who shall hinder? If all the execution be in his hand, there will be no miscarriage.
1. Be Dex•rous in our apprehensions to see the footsteps of our Savior and be so wel acquainted with his passages, that we may perceive his whispers and know him at a turn, though we •ee but his back parts. 2. Use no meanes nor entertain any, but such as come by his own appointment. Because those that come not from him, lead not to him. Col. 2.10. We stand complete in him. Math. 17.5. Hear him, and none but him. As the Prophet to the King of Judah, Go not with the King of Israel, for God is not with him. So, go not out in the use of such means, for God is not in them. 3. Look at him, as sent on purpose for this work