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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. The Father being the Party, properly, and directly offended, lets in his heavy displeasure into the heart of the sinner, and forceth him to feel the bitterness of his sin, in that unsufferable, and unavoidable manner, that takes off, and eats out all the former seeming sweetness the soul hath found therein: and by the almighty, and unresistable power of his blessed Spirit, divorceth him from the embracings of those base Lusts, and plucks him by his almighty hand, from under the power of those prevailing distempers, that have taken place, that so the soul may be for another; which, while it was wedded to its former Corruptions, and under the Sovereignty, and Authority thereof, it was utterly impossible, as being against the Principles of Reason, and the Nature of Grace, and the Covenant of Truth, which the Lord hath left in his Word.
1. The Father being the Party, properly, and directly offended, lets in his heavy displeasure into the heart of the sinner, and forceth him to feel the bitterness of his sin, in that unsufferable, and un•voidable manner, that takes off, and eats out al the former seeming sweetness the soul hath found therein: and by the almighty, and unresistable power of his blessed Spirit, divorceth him from the embracings of those base Lusts, and plucks him by his almighty hand, from under the power of those prevailing distempers, that have taken place, that so the soul may be for another; which, while it was wedded to its former Corruptions, and under the Soveraignty, and Authority thereof, it was utterly impossible, as being against the Principles of Reason, and the Nature of Grace, and the Covenant of Truth, which the Lord hath left in his Word.
This ye shall find most plain in the very express words of our Saviour, when he discovers this Work, John, 17.6. I have manifested thy Name to the Men, which thou gavest me out of the World. He gets them out of the hand of the World, from the lust of the eyes, and lusts of the Flesh, and the Pride of Life,