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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.
If it had been an Enemy, I could have born it, says David, but when it comes to that, It was thou, my familiar Friend, we took sweet counsel, and went up to the house of the Lord together, It was he that lift up himself against me, this is more bitter than death.
If it had been an Enemy, I could have born it, saies David, but when it comes to that, It was thou, my familiar Friend, we took sweet counsel, and went up to the house of the Lord together, It was he that lift up himself against me, this is more bitter than death.
It is so with the Lord. If the Ignorant world, who knows him not, who are strangers from him and the covenant of his Grace: If the wicked and profane, who are professed adversaries to his Grace and Kingdom, if they dishonour his name, transgress his Laws, grieve his spirit, and cast his Ordinances behind their back; It I say, the world deal so with the Lord, he looks for no other, he hates the world, he never gave his Son for the world, Christ never prayed for the world. But that his faithful, whom he hath owned, embraced in the Bowels of his tenderest mercies, should deal frowardly in his covenant, this is killing unkindness. Will ye also go away? Joh. 6.67. When the Crown of those counterfeit wretches, who followed Christ for the ⟨p. 171⟩Loaves, when they missed of their Dinner and sweet morsels, they departed presently, and came no more at him. Our Saviour is content to see so free a riddance of them, and the place quit of their company. But turns himself to his disciples with that melting expression, will ye also go away? q. d. That they are gone I care not, it matters not, I never knew them, nor was known of them, but will ye also go away? that would be unsufferable.
It is so with the Lord. If the Ignorant world, who knows him not, who are strangers from him and the convenant of his Grace: If the wicked and prophane, who are professed adversaries to his Grace and Kingdom, if they dishonor his name, transgress his Laws, grieve his spirit, and cast his Ordinances behind their back; It I say, the world deal so with the Lord, he looks for no other, he hates the world, he never gave his Son for the world, Christ never prayed for the world. But that his faithful, whom he hath owned, imbraced in the Bowels of his tenderest mercies, should deal frowardly in his covenant, this is killing unkindness. Will ye also go away?