A44344:723
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.
2. As there is feebleness, we abide not, so there is crossness to the power of the Spirit, which gives not way thereunto. Though God through Christ let in some intimation to the soul, and our Saviour put his hand into the hole of the door, and his fingers drop Myrrh, leaves sweet insinuations of his favour, present remembrances of himself, Cant. 4.4. yet the soul is composing it self to a secure sluggish frame, Psal. 77.3. My soul refused comfort. Ahaz will not ask a sign, Isa. 7.12. So Exod. 6.9. As Job in another case, If God will speak kindly, I could not believe it. As Asa in a desperate pang, refused to hear, and receive Direction, and Reproof from the Seen, who would have brought him again to the Lord, 2 Chron. 16. told him, the eyes of the Lord run ⟨p. 142⟩to and fro through the world▪ to show himself stronger. He lost his strength and peace all his days.
2. As there is feebleness, we abide not, so there is crossness to the power of the Spirit, which gives not way thereunto. Though God through Christ let in some intimation to the soul, and our Savior put his hand into the hole of the door, and his fingers drop Mirrh, leaves sweet insinuations of his favor, present remembrances of himself, Cant. 4.4. yet the soul is composing it self to a secure sluggish frame, Psal. 77.3. My soul refused comfort. Ahaz will not ask a sign, Isa. 7.12. So Exod. 6.9. As Job in another case, If God will speak kindly, I could not beleeve it. As Asa in a desperate pang, refused to hear, and receive Direction, and Reproof from the Seen, who would have brought him again to the Lord,