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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.
2. None deserves our love more; whom will ye love, if ye love not Jesus? ye will love the world, and it will deceive you. Ye will love you friends, and they will forsake you. Ye will love your own conceits, and those will delude and ruin you. No: Christ hath bought our love dearly, and us also. He loved us more than Heaven. He emptied himself of his glory. He loved us more than his own life, loved us more, than the sense and feeling of his Fathers love, which is better than life it self. Therefore he that hath bought our love and us so dearly, we should dearly love him Let our minds ⟨p. 156⟩love him, who hath enlightened them; our hearts, who hath comforted them: our consciences, because they have been pacified and refreshed by him.
2. None deserves our love more; whom wil ye love, if ye love not Jusus? ye wil love the world, and it wil deceive you. Ye wil love you friends, and they wil forsake you. Ye wil love your own conceits, and those wil delude and ruin you. No: Christ hath bought our love dearly, and us also. He loved us more than Heaven. He emptied himself of his glory. He loved us more than his own life, loved us more, than the sense and feeling of his Fathers love, which is better than life it self. Therefore he that hath bought our love and us so dearly, we should dearly love him Let our minds ⟨p. 156⟩love him, who hath inlightened them; our hearts, who hath comforted them: our consciences, because they have been pacified and refreshed by him.
3. We cannot lay out our love better, to better advantage and improvement for our own spiritual welfare. Joh. 14.21. If any man will love me he shall be loved of my Father and my Father and I will come to him, and Sup with him, and manifest our selves to him. Is there no drooping and distressed Spirit? when thou breathest after the assurance of Gods love, Oh, but one smile of his countenance, when thou sittest in darkness, and in a disconsolate condition; what wouldest thou now give, to gain evidence of Gods favour, that he should make known himself unto thy Soul, and say unto thee, I am thy Salvation? Oh, thou sayest, part with any thing, do any thing. Why, Love jesus Christ, lay out thy affection upon him, and its certain thou shall attain what thou desirest.