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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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2. Secondly; The Lord will give us temporal Blessings, and that Measure of Spiritual, in his own due Time; not when thou and I would, but when he sees most fit; as John 2. 3, 4. The Mother of JESUS comes to our Saviour, and saith, They have no Wine. She thought she had Christ at command: But he answers her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine Hour is not yet come. So it is with our Souls; we want Comfort, and we want Strength against our Corruptions, and we ⟨p. 123⟩want Assurance, and Assistance: But what have I to do with that proud Heart, says our Saviour? My Time is not yet come. You would have it now, as they said, Acts 1.6. Lord, wilt thou NOW restore the Kingdom to Israel? GOD will do in his own Time, and we must wait his Leisure. This is one Thing that doth necessarily accompany the Covenant of Grace, as I have showed before that the Lord should dispense the Blessings of his Kingdom when HE pleaseth, and not when we will. When the Lord sees these Blessings of spiritual Mercies and temporal Favours are ripe and most seasonable to thy Necessity; then thou shalt have them: But the Time is in GOD'S Hand.
2. Secondly; The Lord will give us temporal Blessings, and that Measure of Spiritual, in his own due Time; not when thou and I would, but when he sees most fit; as John 2. 3, 4. The Mother of JESUS comes to our Saviour, and saith, They have no Wine. She tho't she had Christ at command: But he answers her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine Hour is not yet come. So it is with our Souls; we want Comfort, and we want Strength against our Corruptions, and we ⟨p. 123⟩want Assurance, and Assistance: But what have I to do with that proud Heart, says our Saviour? My Time is not yet come. You would have it now, as they said, Acts 1.6. Lord, wilt thou NOW restore the Kingdom to Israel? GOD will do in his own Time, and we must wait his Leisure. This is one Thing that doth necessarily accompany the Covenant of Grace, as I have shewed before that the Lord should dispense the Blessings of his Kingdom when HE pleaseth, and not when we will. When the Lord sees these Blessings of spiritual Mercies and temporal Favours are ripe and most seasonable to thy Necessity; then thou shalt have them: But the Time is in GOD'S Hand.