A44344:642
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, 6.
Matter of Humiliation to all the Saints, who have Christ so near to them, so spiritually, so specially present with them, and yet they know so little of him, are so little acquainted with him: As Paul in another case, Acts, 17.23. touching the Altar set up to the unknown God, he answers, Whom ye ignorantly worship, him I show unto you, for he is not far from you; for in him we live, and move, and have our being. So of Christ, whom ye ignorantly worship, and desire to see, and enquire of Christ by Christ: As Mary asked of the Lord, where the Lord Jesus was. O! they go weeping, and seeking after a Saviour, complain they cannot hear of him, &c. mourn after him. He is not far from you, nay, is in you, and works all your works for you. Your Consciences have been in terror, and perplexity, and again quelled Tweetly, and calmed: it was Christ that did it. Your Spirits were sunk down in discouragements, and knew not how to recover themselves, and yet beyond hope supported: it was Christ that did it. And therefore, as our Saviour complained, and checked Philip, John, 14.9. Have I been so long with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? Hath Christ so long striven ⟨p. 126⟩with those rebellious? so long comforted, quickened, in weaknesses strengthened you, in wants supplied, helped you to call? so often heard, so long born with all that baseness? and do ye not yet know Jesus Christ? Complain of thine own blindness, and heedlessness: The Lord Jesus was in this place, in this heart, and I was not aware of him; wretch that I am, Gen. 28.16.