A44344:917
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.
USE, 1.
Hence we have matter of Patience for the Saints of God: they are the contempt of the wicked, the scorn of the World, the Object of the ignominy and reproach of ungodly men: But their Life is hid with Christ in ⟨p. 192⟩God, beyond their ken, their reach and reason; and no wonder they know nor them nor Christ, The God of this World hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts: no marvel, that what they cannot see, they cannot judg aright of, they know not the things of the God of Heaven, nor the work of his Grace, nor the worth of his Servants.
The Saints are Princes, but they are not in their Country, they are in strange places, and amongst strange People, who do not know them, and therefore cannot honour them: and therefore they are content to bear it for the while, to stay till they come into their own Country, and to the day of Coronation. Says Paul, I pass not for mans day. This is mans day, but at that day, the day of Jesus, &c. The Lord Jesus hath here been under hatches, and the wicked have seemed to carry the day against him. This is your hour. But Christ will have his day, and then ye will have yours. As David encouraged himself in the simplicity of his heart; I shall be had in account of those Maid Servants. So here.
The Saints are Princes, but they are not in their Country, they are in strange places, and amongst strange People, who do not know them, and therefore cannot honor them: and therefore they are content to bear it for the while, to stay til they come into their own Countrey, and to the day of Coronation. Saies Paul, I pass not for mans day. This is mans day, but at that day, the day of Jesus, &c. The Lord Jesus hath here been under hatches, and the wicked have seemed to carry the day against him. This is your hour. But Christ wil have his day, and then ye will have yours. As David encouraged himself in the simplicity of his heart; I shall be had in account of those Maid Servants. So here.