A44344:618
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 1.
CAUTION: To all, especially the wicked and enemies of the Saints: That they do not offend and wrong them, or do the least evil to them because they do wrong to the Lord Jesus, and he so takes it, as to himself. Act. 9. Saul, why persecutest thou me? And the sufferings of the Saints for a good cause are called the sufferings of Christ. 2. Cor. 1.5. Thus the Lord sends to Sennacherib. Isa. 37.28. I know thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. It was bent against Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem, but it was against the Lord, in them.
CAUTION: To al, especially the wicked and enemies of the Saints: That they do not offend and wrong them, or do the least evil to them because they do wrong to the Lord Jesus, and he so takes it, as to himself. Act. 9. Saul, why persecutest thou me? And the sufferings of the Saints for a good cause are called the sufferings of Christ. 2. Cor. 1.5. Thus the Lord sends to Sennacherib. Isa. 37.28. I know thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. It was bent against Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem, but it was against the Lord, in them.
True it is, The wicked see not, know not, consider not this, being blinded with Ignorance and Malice; and therefore Paul asks the question, when Christ speaks, Who art thou Lord? q. d. I own not thy speech, nor understand thy person. Our Saviour answers, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.