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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.
The Point now explicated, the Reasons which give in the Proof thereof, will appear more easy, and more undeniably plain.
The Point now explicated, the Reasons which give in the Proof thereof, will appear more easie, and more undeniably plain.
1. At the Day of Judgment, the World of the wicked, they come to have convicting Evidence, which can neither be gain-said, nor will ever be removed, what is a never failing proof of Gods Love, by the sense woeful Experience they have of Gods direful hatred and displeasure upon their own Souls. Their hearts now find it, and feel it; their Consciences confess it; their Judgments acknowledge it, that the Plague of all Plagues, the Curse of all Curses, that wherein the venom of Gods ⟨p. 190⟩Vengeance and infinite Indignation and hatred of the Lord from his Blessing and comforting presence, to be destroyed from the Presence of the Lord, and the Glory of his Power; the glorious and powerful expression of his saving Mercy. However formerly the soul while it was surfeiting in its sinful distempers, found no greater content, nor conceived any greater favour, than to have it full of its own lusts, and not to be crossed with the Counsel of the Lord; and concluded no other Heaven, nor happiness like the enjoying of their hearts delight, without check of God or Conscience. Yet now he sees the sweet and surfeits of those sins, become the greatest torment unto him, the very quintessence of the Curse, and the substance of the Sentence of Condemnation (Depart from me ye cursed) was the Commission thereof; I thought nothing so delightful, that I might without gainsaying depart from God by sinning: therein the execution of Gods Indignation doth wholly appear, to cast me out of his presence, and to stake me down in his departure, never to see his face, enjoy his presence, come within the smile of his Favour any more.
1. At the Day of Judgment, the World of the wicked, they come to have convicting Evidence, which can neither be gain-sayed, nor wil ever be removed, what is a never failing proof of Gods Love, by the sense woful Experience they have of Gods direful hatred and displeasure upon their own Souls. Their hearts now find it, and feel it; their Consciences confess it; their Judgments acknowledg it, that the Plague of al Plagues, the Curse of al Curses, that wherein the venom of Gods