A44344:774
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.
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 ha•est him.
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 wil pay thee in thine own coin, and recompence thine own waies upon thy head and heart. Nay how canst thou not, but expect the Lord should justly loath thee, who art a very Dunghil of distempers, and whose works are worthy to be hated especially in that thou ha•est him.
The name and memory of Judas is accursed and execrable upon Earth. He is gibb••ed up with this remembrance, Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.