A44344:766
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.
And that we see to be a forcible argument in Nature to draw men to enlargedness of affections. Love begins next home. A Country Man we affect, rather than a Foreigner; one of the same Town before a Country Man; a Kinsman before a Towns Man: a Child before him; the wife before others; a mans self before all, wife and Children and Kinsman and Towns Man. So it is here.
And that we see to be a forceable argument in Nature to draw men to inlargedness of affections. Love begins next home. A Countrey Man we affect, rather than a Forreiner; one of the same Town before a Countrey Man; a Kinsman before a Towns Man: a Child before him; the wife before others; a mans self before al, wife and Children and Kinsman and Towns Man. So it is here.
2. Likeness is the Load-stone of Love.