A44344:869
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.
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.
1. He came not to do his own Will, John, 6.38. but the Will of his Father. Do thou likewise.
As our Saviour in another like case, professed the Zeal of Gods House had eaten him up, eaten up all his Zeal for his own Honour, or Ends. So let the Will of God, and Strength, and Authority of it, carry our Wills, as a mighty Stream doth the weaker Current: whatever is cross to us, let nothing be cross to him. Not my will, &c. The will of the Lord be done. As our Saviour, The Son doth nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. John, 5.19.30. So do thou.
As our Savior in another like case, professed the Zeal of Gods House had eaten him up, eaten up al his Zeal for his own Honor, or Ends. So let the Wil of God, and Strength, and Authority of it, carry our Wils, as a mighty Stream doth the weaker Current: whatever is cross to us, let nothing be cross to him. Not my will, &c. The will of the Lord be done. As our Savior, The Son doth nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. John, 5.19.30. So do thou.
2. Our Saviour sought not his own Honour, but the Glory of him that sent him. Let it be in our eye and aim, yea, the Scope of our Lives, to live merely to lift up his praise, John, 8.50. To live to God, not to our selves, or the world, or any of those sinful ends.