A44344:648
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, 8. Of Exhortation.
1. To be affected with the presence of so great a Majesty, and so affected with his presence, as to see our own weakness, and worthlessness. When God had Schooled Job out of the Whirl-wind, see how he sits down abased, Behold, I am vile. How the Centurion esteemed the presence of our Saviour in the days of his Humiliation? Behold, I am not worthy thou shouldst come under my Roof. How we of our Saviours Spiritual presence now in glory? to come so near, as to dwell in these ⟨p. 127⟩wretched hearts of ours.
1. To be affected with the presence of so great a Majesty, and so affected with his presence, as to see our own weakness, and worthlesnes. When God had Schooled Job out of the Whirl-whind, see how he sits down abased, Behold, I am vile. How the Centution esteemed the presence of our Saviour in the daies of his Humiliation? Behold, I am not worthy thou should'st come under my Roof. How we of our Saviours Spiritual presence now in glory? to come so neer, as to dwel in these ⟨p. 127⟩wretched hearts of ours.