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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.
USE 3 Its Matter of Thankfulness.
If Christ think nothing too good for us, we should be ashamed to stand for a little cost and labour for him. He parts with the choicest of his favour, his Glory to us: we should part with the best of our Duties to him: the best of our hearts, to love him, of our love to honour him, of our endeavours to serve him. They are not common courtesies which he vouchsafes to us, not creatures to comfort us, profits to enrich, but the most precious favour that the Father bestowed: He hath no greater, nor better, and that glory he gives to them. Let us be ashamed to give the Lean, the Lame, the leavings to the Lord. Give him the glory of all that glory we do receive. As the Elders, Rev. 4.10. Cast down our Crowns before him. And let him be advanced in all that he advanceth us.
If Christ think nothing too good for us, we should be ashamed to stand for a little cost and labour for him. He parts with the choicest of his favour, his Glory to us: we should part with the best of our Duties to him: the best of our hearts, to love him, of our love to honor him, of our indeavours to serve him. They are not common courtesies which he vouchlafes to us, not creatures to comfort us, profits to enrich, but the most precious favor that the Father bestowed: He hath no greater, nor better, and that glory he gives to them. Let us be ashamed to give the Lean, the Lame, the leavings to the Lord. Give him the glory of al that glory we do receive. As the Elders, Rev. 4.10. Cast down our Crowns before him. And let him be advanced in al that he advanceth us.