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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 in four things:
1. Bring truth of Spirit in all our performances. Psal. 51.6. Thou lovest truth in the inner parts: So Hezekiah, Remember how I have walked before thee with. an upright heart, Isa. 38.3. God seeks for such, who is a God of Truth, just and right, Deut. 32.4. only the heart, of all the Sacrifice. 2. Present him with nothing but his own. That which he commands not, he accepts not, Who required these things? No man knows what will please him, before he show his pleasure, Matth. 15.9. They worship him in vain, when they invent dishes of their own. 3. Let the Diet be fresh, and new dressed. That which is old and stale, it is not wholesome, much less honourable, to set it before a stranger. It must be fresh, fat, and good, and new killed. Psal. 98.1. David speaks of a new Song of Thanksgiving. As in the Show-bread, which was daily set before the Lord: it must be set on fresh, in the several seasons, Levit. 24.8. Exod. 25.30, each Sabbath.
1. Bring truth of Spirit in al our performances. Psal. 51.6. Thou lovest truth in the inner parts: So Hezekiah, Remember how I have walked before thee with. an upright heart, Isa. 38.3. God seeks for such, who is a God of Truth, just and right,