A44344:895
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.
Answ. I answer three things, wherein the meaning of the places will be opened, and the weight of the Objection removed and taken away.
Answ. I answer three things, wherein the meaning of the places wil be opened, and the weight of the Objection removed and taken away.
1. To discern and judg of the spiritualness of the work of any saving Grace, is wholly beyond the ability and reach of any natural man: much more unable is he to know Gods love therein, or to view the beauty and ⟨p. 185⟩surpassing sweetness thereof. These ways of Wisdom are too high for a Fool. He must have Gods Eye-salve, that must be able to see the things of Gods Grace in himself, much more in another. All sanctifying works are peculiar to the Saints.
1. To discern and judg of the spiritualness of the work of any saving Grace, is wholly beyond the ability and reach of any natural man: much more unable is he to know Gods love therein, or to view the beauty and ⟨p. 185⟩surpassing sweetness thereof. These waies of Wisedom are too high for a Fool. He must have Gods Eye-salve, that must be able to see the things of Gods Grace in himself, much more in another. All sanctifying works are peculiar to the Saints.
There is sanctifying work in the understanding, to act it, and enable it to close with its object, as well, as any sanctifying work upon any of the other faculties: and this is proper to the Saints.