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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.
And thus wicked men are styled from three grounds.
And thus wicked men are stiled from three grounds.
1. Because the God of this world rules in them. 2 Cor. 4.4. i.e. Satan, whose abode and habitation is in this visible world: for where the Devils are cast, there is Hell, but hither they are cast, into the Air, the prince of the Air. Eph. 2.2. He compasseth the Earth to and fro, Job. 1. And sometimes he hurries into the great deep. God hath given him a commission in his Justice, to exercise a Sovereignty over the wicked, and to use all these earthly and worldly things, as baits, to take ⟨p. 68⟩them at his will; and he never fails. With honour, he catcheth the ambitious; with wealth the c•ve•cus; And they acknowledge no God but Sa•an in these, carried and taken aside by his temptations and overpowered by his allurements when he will.
1. Because the God of this world rules in them. 2 Cor. 4.4. i.e. Satan, whose abode and habitation is in this visible world: for where the Devils are cast, there is Hell, but hither they are cast, into the Air, the prince of the Air. Eph. 2.2. He compasseth the Earth to and fro, Job. 1. And somtimes he hurries into the great deep. God hath given him a commission in his Justice, to exercise a Soverainty over the wicked, and to use all these earthly and worldly things, as baits, to take