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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.
USE, 1. Comfort.
This is Ground of strong Support to persuade our hearts: no Temptations from without, no corruptions from within, no oppositions, be they never so fell and fierce, never so mighty, and violent, shall ever be able to hinder our Communion with God in Christ, and so our everlasting happiness. Were the Root of it, either in ⟨p. 144⟩the means we use, or abilities we have, or in the power of the Creatures on Earth, or Angels in Heaven, or Grace in our hearts: It might indeed, either be wonderfully hindered, or else utterly lost, as in Adam.
This is Ground of strong Support to perswade our hearts: no Temptations from without, no corruptions from within, no oppositions, be they never so fel and fierce, never so mighty, and violent, shal ever be able to hinder our Communion with God in Christ, and so our everlasting happiness. Were the Root of it, either in ⟨p. 144⟩the means we use, or abilities we have, or in the power of the Creatures on Earth, or Angels in Heaven, or Grace in our hearts: It might indeed, either be wonderfully hindered, or else utterly lost, as in Adam.
But it issues from a Fountain, which is beyond, not only Heaven, but that which is above Angels there, yea, the highest Stars, even the first Origination of the eternal, blessed In-being of the Father in the Son: which is without all Creatures, nothing can further it; above all, nothing can hinder it; before all, nothing can reach it. This seems to be Pauls ground,