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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. Because the Life Spiritual of the Saints, is hid and concealed while they wilder up and down in this Vale of Tears, clouded partly with sorrows and miseries which attend them, as a constant Companion in a Christian Course; partly collied and bemired with corruptions of their hearts and lives: so that neither the beauty of Gods Grace, nor the tender expressions of Gods Love, doth in any peculiar manner appear in them; and go no further than the Judgment of Sense, they are the most forlorn, despicable Persons upon the face of the Earth. And truly, were their hopes only in this life, they were of all men most miserable; and further than this Life, men do not look, nor can in truth see, wanting Faiths Prospective, which is the Evidence of things not seen, that they so judg, nay, conclude it, as beyond controversy.
1. Because the Life Spiritual of the Saints, is hid and concealed while they wilder up and down in this Vale of Tears, clouded partly with sorrows and miseries which attend them, as a constant Companion in a Christian Course; partly collied and bemited with corruptions of their hearts and lives: so that neither the beauty of Gods Grace, nor the tender expressions of Gods Love, doth in any peculiar manner appear in them; and go no further than the Judgment of Sense, they are the most forlorn, despicable Persons upon the face of the Earth. And truly, were their hopes only in this life, they were of all men most miserable; and further than this Life, men do not look, nor can in truth see, wanting Faiths Prospective, which is the Evidence of things not seen, that they so judg, nay, conclude it, as beyond controversie.
And this sometime stumbled holy Asaph, Psal. 73. See also, 1 John, 3.1, 2. Our Life is hid with Christ in God: when Christ who is our Life shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in Glory.