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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. 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 ⟨p. 96⟩is of the spirit, that is the Grace of Christ, that makes a man close with God in Christ. Thou mayst have strong enlightenings in thy mind, strange raptures in thy spirit, and relishes of joy, taste of the good word, and the heavenly gift, and the power of the world to come, have a Peep-hole into Heaven, and see a glimpse of glory passing by, and all this be nothing, but the Grace of Apostates and Hypocrites, not the Grace of Christ. No says the Apostle. We hope better things of you. Deeper impressions of the power of the Lord Christ, and the work of the spirit, must soak through thy soul, and that not only tasted but digested, and thy heart delivered up into the authority thereof.
Its not the gilt & enameling of any ordinary duty, nor the paint of any profession, that wil 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 loaths it.