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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, 2. Reprehension.
This shows the vileness of the hearts, and the heinousness of the sins of those wretched persons, who undervalue the Lord Jesus in their hearts and apprehensions and look at him, as one unworthy their affection and love. How far are these men from the disposition of the eternal God, the Holy one of Israel? He sets his heart upon the Lord Jesus, as the only Object of his Love: These men loath him. He delights in him, They despise him. How devilish are these distempers? how contrary to the God of glory? even as far as darkness from light, and Hell from Heaven.
This shews the vilenes of the hearts, and the hainousness of the sins of those wretched persons, who undervalue the Lord Jesus in their hearts and apprehensions and look at him, as one unworthy their affection and love. How far are these men from the disposition of the eternal God, the Holy one of Israel? He sets his heart upon the Lord Jesus, as the only Object of his Love: These men loath him. He delights in him, They despise him. How divelish are these distempers? how contrary to the God of glory? even as far as darkness from light, and Hell from Heaven.
How can such ever expect to see the face of God in Christ in another world, whose hearts are so contrary ⟨p. 153⟩to him in this? and yet every place is pestered with these Rebels. Some of the posterity of those, of whom the prophet speaks, Zach. 11.8. Their Souls loathed me, and my Soul loathed them, saith the Lord of Hosts. God will pay thee in thine own coin, and recompense thine own ways upon thy head and heart. Nay how canst thou not, but expect the Lord should justly loath thee, who art a very Dunghill of distempers, and whose works are worthy to be hated especially in that thou haest him.