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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.
Should such expressions be daily presented before a man, and such unkind expressions be laid in his dish; he could not but with indignation cast off such a one. Why? have I ever failed of my Word? ever been wanting in my labour, to answer all your desires? bestead you in all your needs? and have I this for my love and labour, that ye look at me ⟨p. 174⟩as one feeble, and faithless? Take ye other, and choose ye better Friends; I will have no more to do with you.
Should such expressions be dayly presented before a man, and such unkind expressions be laid in his dish; he could not but with indignation cast off such a one. Why? have I ever failed of my Word? ever been wanting in my labor, to answer al your desires? bestead you in al your needs? and have I this for my love and labor, that ye look at me ⟨p. 174⟩as one feeble, and faithless? Take ye other, and chuse ye better Friends; I wil have no more to do with you.
And it is not possible, but our groundless, needless surmises, hard conceits that we harbour, and unloving thoughts of the Lords dealing and goodness; but it should embitter Gods heart against a wretched Creature, and suffer him to sink in his sorrows; and however he cannot out of his Love forsake his, yet he cannot, in respect to the Honour of his Love and Faithfulness, but draw, and with-hold the sense of it, that the way-ward heart may the better perceive its own wretchedness, and unreasonable dealing, and learn not to doubt of Gods Love, when there is no cause. Our groundless surmises of Gods Favour causeth, yea, compels God, to darken our apprehensions, and his expressions.
And it is not possible, but our groundless, needless surmises, hard conceits that we harbor, and unloving thoughts of the Lords dealing and goodness; but it should imbitter Gods heart against a wretched Creature, and suffer him to sink in his sorrows; and however he cannot out of his Love forsake his, yet he cannot, in respect to the Honor of his Love and Faithfulness, but draw, and with-hold the sense of it, that the way-ward heart may the better perceive its own wretchedness, and unreasonable dealing, and learn not to doubt of Gods Love, when there is no cause. Our groundless surmises of Gods Favor causeth, yea, compels God, to darken our apprehensions, and his expressions.