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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.
But I will not trouble you, nor my self with these, whose conditions are so loathsome even unto their own consciences. Only I shall settle it as a matter of sad reproof upon two sorts, whose hopes and professions seem to promise better, but in the issue cozen themselves, and fall short of their own comforts.
But I wil not trouble you, nor my self with these, whose conditions are so loathsome even unto their own consciences. Only I shal settle it as a matter of sad reproof upon two sorts, whose hopes and professions seem to promise better, but in the issue couzen themselves, and fal short of their own comforts.
1. It crusheth the confidence, and splits the vain pretences of all the most refined Hypocrites upon Earth.
1. It crusheth the confidence, and splits the vain pretences of al the most refined Hypocrites upon Earth.
Its not the gilt & enamelling of any ordinary duty, nor the paint of any profession, that will evidence either their Title to Christ, or the Grace of Christ, which he gives indeed to his. No it is the spiritualness of the work in their Souls. If the outside be never so clean, If there be rottenness within, he loathes it. Psal. 45.13. The Kings Daughter is all glorious within &c. The garments of the spouse, are not gilt; but wrought Gold. Its not the show and appearance in your lives, if ye deny the power of Godliness in your hearts. 2 Tim. 3.5. That is not Circumcision that is outward in the flesh: that is not the glorious Grace of Christ, that reforms a mans course before men. But that is Circumcision, which