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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.
1. They shall then stand persuaded of the love of God to believers, by a settled and well grounded conviction, that cannot be removed: I say, settled conviction; because for a time or turn, for a present push and under pressure, they may freely yield, and confess, and profess as much. So many profane wretches, in the horror of their hearts, they have then honoured, then advance• the faithful as the most happy. Oh Blessed such, that ever they were Born, Balaam-like, Let my Soul die th• Death of the righteous, and my latter end be like his But this is but a pang. Now only settled conviction Seizeth upon the Souls of the worldly men,
1. They shal then stand perswaded of the love of God to beleevers, by a setled and wel grounded conviction, that cannot be removed: I say, setled conviction; because for a time or turn, for a present push and unde• pressure, they may freely yield, and confess, and profess as much. So many profane wretches, in the horro• of their hearts, they have then honored, then advance• the faithful as the most happy. Oh Blessed such, that ever they were Born, Balaam-like, Let my Soul die th• Death of the righteous, and my latter end be like his But this is but a pang. Now only setled conviction Seizeth upon the Souls of the worldly men,
2. It is a grounded Acknowledgement from a sensible Experience of the contrary. Condition, which they have observed in their own Souls, and therefore now it's past gainsaying, when their own sense gives in constant Evidence without alteration; of which, more afterward.
2. It is a grounded Acknowledgment from a sensible Experience of the contrary. Condition, which they have observed in their own Souls, and therefore now it's past gainsaying, when their own sense gives in constant Evidence without alteration; of which, more afterward.