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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.
That is the truth of the point, before we can come to the Reason, there must be two Questions answered which will give in the light of explication to the several branches of the Doctrine.
That is the truth of the point, before we can come to the Reason, there must be two Questions answered which wil give in the light of explication to the several branches of the Doctrine.
Quest. 1. How wicked men, the world, can be truly said, to know the love of God to believers, which is so special a secret, that it is not (many times) made known to Gods own, for many years together: nay the Apostle professeth, it exceedeth knowledge. Eph. 3.19. At least, this new name writ upon the White-stone no man knows but he that hath it. And therefore this love seems to be beyond the reach of the world, too far off, for their blind Eyes to see: yea the Apostle professeth, they have not received the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God, that they might know the things, that are graciously given them of God: and is one, if not the chiefest of all those good things given, the surpassing indearedness of the Fathers affection to his. How then can the world, who have no other, but the Spirit of the world be able to know this?
Quest. 1. How wicked men, the world, can be truly said, to know the love of God to beleevers, which is so special a secret, that it is not (many times) made known to Gods own, for many years together: nay the Apostle professeth, it exceedeth knowledg. Eph. 3.19. At least, this new name writ upon the White-stone no man knows but he that hath it. And therefore this love seems to be beyond the reach of the world, too far off, for their blind Eyes to see: yea the Apostle professeth, they have not received the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God, that they might know the things, that are graciously given them of God: and is one, if not the cheifest of al those good things given, the surpassing indearedness of the Fathers affection to his. How then can the world, who have no other, but the Spirit of the world be able to know this?