A44344:501
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.
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1. This gives in heavy evidence against a world of ⟨p. 95⟩wicked wretches, and casts out a crowd of ungodly persons, our of the pale and fold of Christ, as such, as never yet had the work of faith here, nor have any hope of glory hereafter.
If all believers share in the Grace of Christ: what shall we think of such ignorant poor creatures. that never knew this? of those profane ones, who profess themselves to be Scorners and Opposers of grace, and the gospel of grace and the spirit of grace and Christ himself? what shall we think of them? think of them, as they are: They are unbelieving creatures, yet in the gal of bitterness, and bond of iniquity, and must, and will have their portion with unbelievers, in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. They loath the glorious grace of God now: they shall be shut out, and banished from his glorious presence for ever.
If all beleevers share in the Grace of Christ: what shal we think of such ignorant poor creatures. that never knew this? of those profane ones, who profess themselves to be Scorners and Opposers of grace, and the gospel of grace and the spirit of grace and Christ himself? what shal we think of them? think of them, as they are: They are unbeleeving creatures, yet in the gal of bitterness, and bond of iniquity, and must, and wil have their portion with unbeleevers, in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. They loath the glorious grace of God now: they shal be shut out, and banished from his glorious presence for ever.