A44344:844
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.
There be many Collections yet remaining: we shall touch only some, because we would willingly put an ⟨p. 170⟩end to the verse.
1. Instruction. The sins of the faithful are exceeding grievous unto the Lord, above the sins of all other persons, they go nearest unto the heart of the Almighty. Not only against light, but again love, yea the greatest love that could be showed, and therefore cause great distaste. If Enemies abuse and wrong us: If Strangers, to whom we are not known, nor whom we know, deal harshly and discourteously with us in our common occasions of commerce: or If those of alliance and acquaintance, who are profane and ungodly, if they be false in their promises, or injust or injurious in their carriages towards us: They deal like themselves, they do but their kind, as we say. If false hearted persons deal falsely, If loose men show themselves base to us, its that they do to all, yea to their own Souls: we expect no other, and therefore if we find no better measure, it doth not trouble.
1. Instruction. The sinns of the faithful are exceeding grievous unto the Lord, above the sins of al other persons, they go neerest unto the heart of the Almighty. Not only against light, but again love, yea the greatest love that could be shewed, and therefore cause great distast. If Enemies abuse and wrong us: If Strangers, to whom we are not known, nor whom we know, deal harshly and discourteously with us in our common occasions of commerce: or If those of alliance and acquaintance, who are prophane and ungodly, if they be fals in their promises, or injust or injurious in their carriages towards us: They deal like themselves, they do but their kind, as we say. If fals hearted persons deal falsly, If loose men shew themselves base to us, its that they do to al, yea to their own Souls: we expect no other, and therefore if we find no better measure, it doth not trouble.