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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.
4. Humility and fear. Mic. 6.8. Isa. 66.2. Men converse with marvellous underness and awfulness, before great personages, when they are sleight and negligent in the presence of their underlings. So must we be awful and fearful when we come into Christs presence, to be negligent here is to dishonour and to distaste him: it is to use him, as an underling.
4. Humility and feare. Mic. 6.8. Isa. 66.2. Men converse with marvailous underness and awfullness, before great personages, when they are sleight and negligent in the presence of their underlings. So must we be awful and feareful when we come into Christs presence, to be negligent here is to dishonor and to distast him: it is to use him, as an underling.
2. Honour him with our attendance.
2. Honor him with our attencance.
1. Attend him with gladness and cheerfulness of heart. Joy is a sit Chamberlain to wait; comes and goes readily. Deut. 28.47. With glad hearts. Act. 2.46. Eat their meat together with joyfulness of heart God loves a cheerful look, not louring.