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The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men…
The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men from coming to Christ, are discovered. : With special helps to recover God's favour. / By Thomas Hooker. ; With an abstract of the author's life. ; [Four lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed by Green for D. Henchman, 1743
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In which last Hours the glorious Peace of Soul which he had enjoyed without any Interruption for near thirty Years together, so gloriously accompanied him, that a worthy Spectator then writing to Mr. Cotton, a Relation thereof, made this Reflection; […] the Sight of his Death will make me have more pleasant Thoughts of Death than ever I yet had in my Life! Thus lived and died one of the first Three. He of whom his Pupil Mr. Ash *gives this Testimony; For his great Abilities and glorious Services, both in this and the other England, he deserves a Place in the first Rank of them whose Lives are of late recorded.
In which last Hours the glorious Peace of Soul which he had enjoyed without any Interruption for near thirty Years together, so gloriously accompanied him, that a worthy Spectator then writing to Mr. Cotton, a Relation thereof, made this Reflection; 〈…〉 the Sight of his Death will make me have more pleasant Tho'ts of Death than ever I yet had in my Life! Thus liv'd and died one of the first Three. He of whom his Pupil Mr. Ash *gives this Testimony; For his great Abilities and glorious Services, both in this and the other England, he deserves a Place in the first Rank of them whose Lives are of late recorded.
- *I suppose the Rev. and famous Mr. Simeon Ash of London: And by this he means OLD England; and by the other, NEW.
These are so many Passages recited from his Life, written by Dr. Cotton Mather; who also calls him, the Light of the Western Churches and Pillar of CONNECTICUT COLONY; and declares, that yet he has underdone in this Part of his Composure: And Dr. Increase ⟨p. 13⟩Mather, writing of Mr. Hooker, says; So good and so great a Man; than whom CONNECTICUT never did, and perhaps never will see a greater Person; and that Dr. Ames used to say. He never knew his Equal.