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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.
1. When the understanding meets with and gives entertainment to the evidence of that truth, that is now presented to its view: but that is not all, that it comprehends the compass of the truth that comes to consideration, but that it is so far settled by force of argument that doth confirm it, that it fully assents and subscribes thereunto. For the force of argument begets this human Faith and a full and unquestionable assurance of the conclusion. This is that the Apostle means Rom. 14. And the last, when the understanding neither doubts the certainty, nor mistakes the truth, but is carried sul sail in assent. 2. The evidence or this truth, thus understood, is of that power and prevailing efficacy, that it carries a kind of command and control with it, it soaks into the conscience, sets down that, and convinceth it, that conscience gives in its verdict that way. It proceeds yet further, sets upon the will with that forcible and undeniable ⟨p. 73⟩evidence, that it awes it, and brings it to yield thus far, that its true in the general, but that its either not her pleasure and so not her good to submit to it, but only for some turn, for her own ends, but not in uprightness, and for it self. Joh. 3.8. When Jonah had denounced the judgment of God against Nineveh, Its said, The believed the word of the Lord. Not that they did do that savingly, for its spoken of the whole Body of the people, who were yet heathenish: but that they did without question assent to the truth of the message, their consciences were so far convinced, and their hearts so far awed, that they did yield it was certain it would come. And both these are here understood, and intended by our Saviour; that they whose judgments, consciences, hearts were not settled, convinced, nor yet persuaded, that our Saviour was sent, They might be brought to believe. 3. What the world shall thus believe touching Christs sending?
1. When the understanding meets with and gives entertainment to the evidence of that truth, that is now presented to its view: but that is not al, that it comprehends the compass of the truth that comes to considereation, but that it is so far setled by force of argument that doth confirm it, that it fully assents and subsc••bes thereunto. For the force of argument begets this human Faith and a ful and unquestionable assurance of the conclusion. This is that the Apostle means