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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.
If thou hast a base heart, leadest a graceless life, thou art a base man, and a base woman. Thy Favourites may flatter thee, and friends applaud thee, and thy neighbours speak well of thee: but thou art abhorred of the Lord, art loathed of the Saints, that can tell how to judg. Psal. 15. In whose eyes a vile person is despised. If thou beest a wicked man, a vicious, proud, stubborn, froward person, truly thou art a vile person; and it a note of him, that will enter into God Tabernacle and dwell in his Holy Hill, that he should despise thee as such: though thou hadst never so much of all this earthly pomp the world can afford. Dross is base though it be kept in the best place of the treasury: Copper is yet vile and worthless, though it be set upon the highest place of the Cupboard, and not only man should so judg but God will. The froward in spirit is abomination unto the Lord.
If thou hast a base heart, leadest a graceless life, thou art a base man, and a base woman. Thy Favourites may flatter thee, and friends applaud thee, and thy neighbors speak wel of thee: but thou art abhorred of the Lord, art loathed of the Saints, that can tel how to judg. Psal. 15. In whose eyes a vile person is despised. If thou beest a wicked man, a vicious, proud, stubborn, froward person, truly thou art a vile person; and it a note of him, that wil enter into God Tabernacle and dwel in his Holy Hil, that he should despise thee as such: though thou hadst never so much of al this earthly pomp the world can afford. Dross is base though it be kept in the best place of the treasury: Copper is yet vile and worthless, though it be set upon the highest place of the Cupboard, and not only man should so judg but God wil. The froward in spirit is abomination unto the Lord.
Nay though thy place and privileges be never so high and great, they indeed may be glorious, as having some impression of Gods power and authority painted upon them, but yet, if thy heart be void of Grace, and thy life of Holiness; Thou art wholly destitute of any true glory. Thy place and the impression of Gods power must be honoured in thee, bu thy self art despicable and worthless, as that King Jehoram that died undesired. 2, Chro. 21.20.