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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
Verse continued 23 › God the Father loveth the Faithful, as he loveth Jesus Christ. › USE.
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Study therefore to answer Gods Love in our manner, and according to our measure. He thought nothing too good for us, let us account nothing good enough for him. Let not the Lord have the leanest of our Love, the Female Affection, the leavings of any thing here below: We had the chief of his Love, let us lay out the choicest of our Affections wholly, and only upon himself, before all Creatures we prize. They are nothing, yea, less than nothing, In comparison of the Lord, let them be so in our Affections: they are nothing, let them have nothing of our Love; but reserve that only for the Almighty, who is only worthy of it. The Wife she receives strangers into her House, to entertain, and ⟨p. 179⟩lodge them; Neighbours to her Conference, to counsel them; Familiars to her Table, to welcome them: but her Husband only hath her heart and love. So let thy Prudence order these things, thy hand use them, thy skill and diligence husband them: but keep thy Love for God alone; yea, give away thy Heart from thy self, to God, to whom thou owest it, more than to thy self. Let not thy Life be dear unto thee, that thou mayest finish thy course; lose that, to gain him; cast away that, to content him. As Lovers, they count it happiness, that they may have any thing to pleasure: glad we have it for a Friend. As the Martyr, he was sorry he had but one Life to lose for God. Yea, love him, as Christ loves him; and that's in three things.
Study therefore to answer Gods Love in our manner, and according to our measure. He thought nothing too good for us, let us account nothing good enough for him. Let not the Lord have the leanest of our Love, the Female Affection, the leavings of any thing here below: We had the chief of his Love, let us lay out the choycest of our Affections wholly, and only upon himself, before al Creatures we prize. They are nothing, yea, less than nothing, In comparison of the Lord, let them be so in our Affections: they are nothing, let them have nothing of our Love; but reserve that only for the Almighty, who is only worthy of it. The Wife she receives strangers into her House, to entertain, and ⟨p. 179⟩