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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.
Because their Understandings are wholly perverted, and their hearts also so corrupt, that they are not able to judg of the Love of the Lord, or the evidencing expressions thereof. The god of this World hath so blinded their eyes, that the beauty of Gods Grace, and so the beams and heat of Gods Love cannot come home to their Consciences, to convince them thereof: And such is the corrupt distempered frame of their hearts, that they savour only the things of the Flesh; and not to have things suit their sensual Appetite, or to contrive Contentments to their own carnal Affections, they count it the greatest curse and expression of Gods distaste, and displeasure that may be. The carnal heart savours the things of the Flesh, nothing seems sweet, unless it suits his corruption. So that,
Because their Understandings are wholly perverted, and their hearts also so corrupt, that they are not able to judg of the Love of the Lord, or the evidencing expressions thereof. The god of this World hath so blinded their eyes, that the beauty of Gods Grace, and so the beams and heat of Gods Love cannot come home to their Consciences, to convince them thereof: And such is the corrupt distempered frame of their hearts, that they savor only the things of the Flesh; and not to have things suit their sensual Appetite, or to contrive Contentments to their own carnal Affections, they count it the greatest curse and expression of Gods distast, and displeasure that may be. The carnal heart savors the things of the Flesh, nothing seems sweet, unless it suits his corruption. So that,
If the Life of a Believer, and so the Evidences of Gods Love be hid, and cannot be discerned:
If the Life of a Beleever, and so the Evidences of Gods Love be hid, and cannot be discerned: