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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.
Here is matter of marvellous and unspeakable COMFORT to all the Saints, to cure us or all Fears, and deliver us from all discouragements that ever we shall meet withal in this World. The Lord Jesus is a Helper, a strong Helper, ready to save: so the Apostle Phil. 4, infers, The Lord is at hand. Are Devils at hand to tempt thee? are Enemies subtle, and mighty at hand to persecute, and oppose thee? are thy fears and discouragements at hand to over-bear thee? The Lord Jesus is at hand, near t•ee, nay, in thee, to succour, and supply, add satisfy.
Here is matter of marvelous and unspeakable COMFORT to al the Saints, to cure us or al Fears, and deliver us from al discouragements that ever we shal meet withal in this World. The Lord Jesus is a Helper, a strong Helper, ready to save: so the Apostle Phil. 4, infers, The Lord is at hand. Are Devils at hand to tempt thee? are Enemies subtil, and mighty at hand to persecute, and oppose thee? are thy fears and discouragements at hand to over-bear thee? The Lord Jesus is at hand, neer t•ee, nay, in thee, to succor, and supply, add satisfie.
1. Comfort in all thy Spiritual trials, when Satan grows most fell, thy corruptions most strong, and thy heart begins to fail thee in the apprehension of thine Infirmities, as that thou shalt never be able to subdue, to overcome, nay, not to resist. Behold, 1 John, 4.4. be they never so great; Greater is he that is in thee, than be that is in the world. Though thou beest never so weak, and thine Enemies never so great, Christ is greater than all Devils, than all distempers, than all the power of darkness, and malice of the wicked.
1. Comfort in al thy Spiritual tryals, when Satan grows most fel, thy corruptions most strong, and thy heart begins to fail thee in the apprehension of thine Infirmities, as that thou shalt never be able to subdue, to overcome, nay, not to resist. Behold,