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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
That the world may know thou hast loved them, as thou lovest me.
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.
What our Saviour did, its lawful for us upon the like ⟨p. 182⟩occasion and like grounds for us to do, to put up the same petition several times, the same prayer. If we find we have greater need of that we ask, than any other, or if there be special worth in it, or that our hearts grow warmer in the work, and increase into the strength of our affection towards the thing we ask: For then there is no vain babbling, or empty repetition but the expressions, though the same, have new strength of fresh apprehensions and affections put upon them, Therefore David again unto the place strikes the same string often, which made best melody in that music and song of his. Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders he doth for the Children of men.
What our Savior did, its lawful for us upon the like ⟨p. 182⟩occasion and like grounds for us to do, to put up the same petition several times, the same prayer. If we find we have greater need of that we ask, than any other, or if there be special worth in it, or that our hearts grow warmer in the work, and increase into the strength of our affection towards the thing we ask: For then there is no vain babling, or empty repetition but the expressions, though the same, have new strength of fresh apprehensions and affections put upon them, Therefore David again unto the place striks the same string often, which made best melody in that musick and song of his. Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders he doth for the Children of men.
2. We ought to pray most earnestly, that the power of our Saviour might be expressed, that his right appointment to the work of Redemption might be acknowledged by the world.
2. We ought to pray most earnestly, that the power of our Savior might be expressed, that his right appointment to the work of Redemption might be acknowledged by the world.