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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.
I shall Instance in two Evils, unto which the Saints are usually too much subject, and taken aside withal, which are so professedly opposite to this enlarged compassion of the Lord.
I shal Instance in two Evils, unto which the Saints are usually too much subject, and taken aside withal, which are so professedly opposite to this enlarged compassion of the Lord.
1. When the Faithful, either question this Love, when it is so sure. Or, 2. Undervalue it, and little esteem of it, when it is so great, as that it exceeds the thoughts, and apprehensions of men.
Both are marvellously distasteful, and that justly, to the Father of Mercies, and in truth unsufferable, were it not that he makes us acceptable, and lovely through his well-beloved. It could not be that he could bear with the abuse of his constant kindness, in so gross and unkind manner: and yet this is the baseness and wretchedness of our unreasonable hearts. He hath loved us with an everlasting Love; he never ceaseth loving, and we never cease questioning, and quarrelling with his kindness: we are ever of the jealous, and suspicious hand, that this favour of the Lord, it is but for a fit, it will one day fail, and we shall be forsaken utterly:
Both are marvelously distastful, and that justly, to the Father of Mercies, and in truth unsufferable, were it not that he makes us acceptable, and lovely through his wel-beloved. It could not be that he could bear with the abuse of his constant kindness, in so gross and unkind manner: and yet this is the baseness and wretchedness of our unreasonable hearts. He hath loved us with an everlasting Love; he never ceaseth loving, and we never cease questioning, and quarrelling with his kindness: we are ever of the jealous, and suspicious hand, that this favor of the Lord, it is but for a fit, it wil one day fail, and we shal be forsaken utterly: