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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.
USE, 3. Of Direction.
Let the practise of our Saviour be our DIRECTION How to steer our Course, to Sail by his compass: Be good Husbands and wisely careful to lay in provision for every condition. The wise man sends the Sluggard to the Pismire: Go to the Pismire thou Sluggard, learn her ways and be wise, she prepares in summer, before the Winter; when there will neither be means nor meat to be got, nor season to get it. Be we so careful. In peace provide for war, in prosperity for want, in health for Sickness. This was Jobs care, When his Paths were Buttered and his Breasts ran full of Milk: he then Feared and expected. Lay in reversion of Prayers for Children, as in that Fundamental Prayer of Solomon, he provides for every occasion. If thy people shall be carried Captive, and in the Enemies Land, if Pestilence ⟨p. 205⟩&c. Then, what Prayer is made by thy people &c. So lay thou in reversion of prayers for such times and straits.
Let the practise of our Savior be our DIRECTION How to steer our Course, to Sail by his compass: Be good Husbands and wisely careful to lay in provision for every condition. The wise man sends the Sluggard to the Pismire: Go to the Pismire thou Sluggard, learn her waies and be wise, she prepares in summer, before the Winter; when there wil neither be means nor meat to be got, nor season to get it. Be we so careful. In peace provide for war, in prosperity for want, in health for Sickness. This was Jobs care, When his Paths were Buttered and his Breasts ran ful of Milk: he then Feared and expected. Lay in reversion of Prayers for Children, as in that Fundamental Prayer of Solomon, he provides for every occasion. If thy people shal be carried Captive, and in the Enemies Land, if Pestilence