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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.
This shows the greatness of the sin of unbelief, and the misery of unbelievers, who not only oppose the righteousness of the Law of God, which should rule them, his statutes and precepts which should direct them: But the Blood of the covenant, shed by Christ, they trample upon it; the reconciliation wrought and tendered, they despise it, the Bowels, compassions which would embrace them, they scorn and cast behind their Back.
This shews the greatness of the sin of unbeleef, and the misery of unbeleevers, who not only oppose the righteousness of the Law of God, which should rule them, his statutes and precepts which should direct them: But the Blood of the covenant, shed by Christ, they trample upon it; the reconciliation wrought and tendered, they despise it, the Bowels, compassions which would imbrace them, they scorn and cast behind their Back.
If the union to the Father and the Son be beyond Heaven and happiness it self. Then the opposition to these by unbelief is more bitter than death, and worse than Hell. And Therefore it seems God comes against ⟨p. 108⟩such in the fierceness of his fury, as the marks and Objects of his heaviest indignation. 2 Thess. 1.8, 9. He will come in flaming fire to render vengeance to such that obey not the Gospel. Against these he proceeds in the first place with greatest fury, and punisheth them with everlasting destruction from his face, not have one favourable cast of his countenance or smile, when before he hath wooed them, and wept over them, and entreated in the Gospel to be reconciled. Yea from the glory of his power.
If the union to the Father and the Son be beyond Heaven and happiness it self. Then the opposition to these by unbeliefe is more bitter than death, and worse than Hell. And Therefore it seemes God comes against ⟨p. 108⟩