A44344:97
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
Contents: The Contents of Mr. Hooker's seventeenth Book, made in New-England.
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.
DOCT. God the Father loveth the Faithful, as he loveth Jesus Christ. Page 156 Two things opened Page 158 1 Wherein the love of the Father to the Saints, shows it self ibid. 2 That it is like to that wherewith he loved his Son ibid. The first appears by three things ibid. 1 Love of Union 2 Complacence 3 Benevolence ibid. Quest. o• 2 Thes. 1.12. Is there any Name higher than the Name of Christ Page 163 Answered by expounding the place ibid. Use 1. Comfort to the Saints, because God loves them. Page 164 Use 2. Terror to those that hate them ibid. Use 3. They are worthy our Love Page 165 The Father loves the Saints, as he loves his Son, proved in each particular ibid.
DOCT. God the Father loveth the Faithful, as he loveth Jesus Christ. Page 156 Two things opened Page 158 1 Wherein the love of the Father to the Saints, shews it self ibid. 2 That it is like to that wherewith he loved his Son ibid. The first appears by three things ibid. 1 Love of Ʋnion 2 Complacence 3 Benevolence ibid. Quest. o• 2 Thes. 1.12. Is there any Name higher than the Name of Christ Page 163 Answered by expounding the place ibid. Use 1. Comfort to the Saints, because God loves them. Page 164 Use 2. Terror to those that hate them ibid. Use 3. They are worthy our Love Page 165 The Father loves the Saints, as he loves his Son, proved in each particular ibid.
I. Instruction. The sins of the faithful, are more grievous to God, than the sins of other persons Page 170 ⟨image 12⟩Instance in two Evils, unto which the Saints are usually subject Page 172 1 To question Gods love ibid. 2 To undervalue it ibid. Object. Though God loves me, yet my grounds are weak Page 174 Answ. Gods love is above all Graces thou canst desire. ib.