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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44344	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.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1656 (1656)	Wing H2643; ESTC R7774	293,622	460

thy great work in Heaven to keep me in the world and bring me to Heaven What wil you do to honor this Christ who hath thus honored you how should you indeavor to serve him in Earth who indeed serves you in Heaven He provides for your safety and comfort provide you for his Glory He stands betwixt you and your Harms against al sins Devils Temptations stand you between him and his wrongs that may be done to him Before we pass from this verse one thing more may be shortly handled and that taken from the consideration of the Time When these persons shall beleeve for whom our Savior here prayes and that is cleerly discovered to continue until the end of the world those who yet were not in the world and those who should beleeve even at the end of the world for these now our Savior praies Hence Our Savior hath a speciall care for those that shal beleeve on him Doct. even in the worst condition of their Unbeleef So the text gives in undeniable evidence even before many had any being in Nature and when some were and others should be brought into the world and had neither mind to know God nor Heart to seek after Christ or to pray for themselves Yet here ye see our Savior takes in al those now within the compass of his prayer and care to provide for them and to contrive all for their good when they neither did nor could care for him or for themselves therefore its plain Our Savior cares for such who shal beleeve in him when they are in the depth of their unbeleef and his prayer is then working for their good when they intend no good unto themselves Our Savior when they were in the heat of that hellish villany in blaspheming and killing the Lord of life even then he intends life to them procures and purchaseth life for them Luk. 23 34. Father forgive them they know not what they do This prayer it was that wrought more than Peters preaching when his spirit was warmed with the Love of Jesus and the Blood of a dying Savior ran fresh now in al the Veins of his Heart and the power and vertue of it was mighty upon the consciences of Peters Hearers such as had before been Crucifyers of the Lord of life It then took place and prevailed mightily Isa 57.18 I have seen his waies c though he see not himself See this made good in some particulars as 1. In the several degrees of it 2. The Reason and 3. The Use This care and the vertue of this prayer of our Savior will appear thus in five Particulars Hence 1. It is that the Lord contrives means in the waies of his Providence for the bringing of these men into the world so that the Parents and Predecessors of such though happily desperately wicked and forlorn shal yet have their stock and posterity continued in the world because they shal bring these into the world who shal beleeve And therefore it is the patience of God is extended towards many a wicked parent nay to the whole stock and Linage of vile and loose men not for their sakes but the sakes and cause of some that shal come of them whom the Lord Christ doth purpose to bring to himself Math. 24.22 Had not God shortned those daies no flesh had been saved but for his Elects sake the Lord shortned those daies i.e. The generation of the Jews now rejecting and most Hellishly blaspheming the Lord Jesus Christ had so provoked the Eyes of the Lord That should he in Justice have proceeded against them and executed his righteous Judgments either as the Nature of their sins deserved or their Enemies intended and out of their power and rage could easily have accomplished it there had not been one Jew left alive to propagate their posterity or name or Nation But the Lord had an Eye to his Elect that should come of these in the last Age of the world after so many Ages and generations past when their dead Bones shal live and the Redeemer shal come out of Sion and turn Jacob from iniquity then all Israel shal be saved So the Apostle Rom. 11.28 Hated for their sins sake but beloved for their Fathers sake i.e. For Abraham with whom through Christ the covenant of the Gospel was made to him and to his Seed i.e. To al the faithful whether Jew or Gentile but with the Jew first and then with the Graecian For this calling and covenant being everlasting is without repentance and wil assuredly take place in the season thereof when it shal be most sutable to shew forth free grace 2. The Lord even so provides that such means in an ordinary way of Providence may be sent continued and dispensed to such who never had a thought of them enquired after them or had a Heart to entertain them when they are offered Upon this ground the Lord appoints and incourageth the Apostle Act. 18.9 10. Speak and hold not thy Tongue Speak plainly and fully fear no mans frowns regard no mans favors no man shal do thee harm for I have people in this City Thus the Spirit stopped the passage into Bithynia for when they assayed the Spirit suffered them not Act. 16.7 But Christ sends post by an express in a Vision to Paul A man of Macedonia appeares with this Petition in his Hand subscribed by the Hearts of the messengers Come into Macedonia and help us And when they came the Issue shewes their Errand A poor Woman a Purple-seller and a Stubborn and Rebellious spirited Jailour was all the Markets he made But this is the Lords manner if there be but one Grain of Corn in many heapes of Chaff he wil never leave winnowing rather than lose it send he wil Messenger after Messenger until he hath gathered that into his barn Onesimus a Runnagate from his Master without the reach of government of Gospel God coops him up in Prison and casts Paul thither also that so he may come to the speech of him 3. He keeps them by his restraining Grace and some strong hand of Providence sometimes from grosser sins I say some of those that shal beleeve from some loathsome and hainous evil but alwaies from falling into that sin against the Holy Ghost because that is a Disease which admits no Remedy a Dungeon of that depth from whence there is no deliverance beyond the reach of the work of Redemption as that which comes not within the compass of mercy and the Riches of the compassion of the Almighty The Lord hath passed the sentence and that most Peremptory and shews the deadly Malignity of that evil by way of difference from all others Math. 12.31 Wherefore I say unto you all manner of sin and Blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come i.e. There is no Hope It here cannot be pardoned and at the great

did it not to me Therefore if the Argument was strong whereby our Savior would perswade all to be feareful of offending even one of these little ones though they were alone and though little because ●hat in Heaven their Angels do alwaies behold the f●ce o● their heavenly Father ready to attend his pleasure to execute his wil for their preservation and for the ruine of their enemies Math. 18.10 Then much more this Argument He that is Lord of glory and hath all power in Heaven and Earth is in them and suffers with them and therefore cannot but protect them and relieve both his and their wrongs Is in Heaven at Gods right hand and is also in their hearts USE 2. To desire the fellowship and to delight in the society of the faithful For we shal keep no worse company than that of our Savior Though happily they dwel in a smo●ky cottage have course fa●e be in a mean condition yet if Christ dwel in them we need not be ashamed to converse with them and own them Go in to their companies as resolving to go to Court For where the King is the Court is his presence makes it We should look at the faithful as the great Heires of glory and Courtiers of Heaven we cannot injoy their society but we may also come to the sight of our Savior and speech with him So 1. Joh. 1.3 This we write that you may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with the S●n. So they Zach. 8.13 And therefore as the Apostle Hebr. 13.2 Be careful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares so be ready to entertain the Saints the poor members of Christ hereby we shal entertain Christ Receive such servants into your families c. USE 3. Hence by way of TRYAL we way gain undoubted evidence unto our Hearts that we are indeed Beleevers and truly beloved of God and his Son If once we find this blessed Son the Lord Jesus by his spiritual and special presence in our souls It s a never failing argument which will give in assurance of our good condition beyond all that the Divels can object or our fears and discouraged hearts can question The Apostle puts it beyond the possibility of any cavil If Christ be given to thee how shal not God but give al things Els that is hold this ground and make that good Thy carnal reason by al the deluded Devise whereby it would daunt thy heart it cannot put a colorable appearance of any possibility but that al things that are good should be given thee He that hath the Son hath life Make that sure and then al the rest is safe past al peradventure nay beyond dispute For al the jealousies and suspicious that arise in our own hearts al the darkness and difficulties that appear in al discoveries that are made all the questions that come upon the most searching inquiries and examinations touching any soundness of any Grace or any work of Grace and so of the sincerity of the heart and the truth and goodness of a mans estate If any doubt arise whether sure or no certain or no in conclusion it is lastly resolved settles and centers as they say Here If Issues from our not-union with Christ This may be done by some other power proceed from some other principle than the spirit of the Lord Jesus This is not a certain fruit of our union to Christ or the inhabitation of the spirit of Jesus in us And in Issue unless it lead necessarily to a Christ or be derived infallibly from him and the interest we have in covenant with him It s no more than that a man may have who hath no Grace It s no more but that which a man may do that hath no part in a Savior And hence al such evidences fal to the ground and utterly fail And in truth the weakness of expressions in this kind men taking shews for substance seemings and some appearances of things for the truth of things themselves hath been the cause that many have been cousened with their own conceipts and apprehensions many have denied all evidences because those which they had and too much trusted unto were fall and failed them utterly at times of need Therefore the Holy Ghost presseth this so instantly and checks the failing in it so sharply 2 Cor. 13.5 Prove and examin your selves whether ye be in the Faith or no Acted by and carried by the power of Faith Why how shal we discern that Know ye not that Christ is in you If once that be brought about the business is offa hand and its a sin and a shame ye should not Vnless ye be reprobates that is drossy men Christians that have not the right mettal are not of the right make you should not but know this This presence special and spiritual discovers it self in two things Not to trouble you with more 1. He that hath this presence hath somthing and finds somthing above the bounds of al created abilities that even the greatest sufficiency of the creature the best indeavours and improvements of the best meanes in providence could reach unto A wisedom beyond all a mans Wit and readiest subtilties and largest apprehensions a power beyond all the power of Nature beyond what a mans abilities and dexterity can compass education give skil of art and sciences attain practise and experience find out beyond al the moral impressions that the power of all meanes and help under Heaven can leave upon the Soul It was said of Saul that the Lord gave him another heart than formerly he had he had the spirit of Government a special ability to the discharge of the place that the Lord had called him unto So it is with every Christian he hath another heart than ever before and performes his duties from another power than ever he did before Gal. 2.20 even by the power of Christ So the Apostle professeth He did not live nor pray nor preach It was not abilities of nature which he had not knowledg of Art and learning in which he excelled by which he prayed but it was the power and gracious presence of the Holy Spirit of Christ that acted and carried out al those abilities yea that spiritual power of grace he had to this work either of praying or preaching So 2. Cor. 13.3 If any man require a testimony of Christ speaking in me And therefore it s the reason which he gives why the things of God are known by beleevers and not known to the greatest of the world 1. Cor. 2.11 No man knowes the things of God but the Spirit of God and we have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit of God Nay he comes yet lower to the very expression of the words Which things we speak not in the words which mans wisdome teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teacheth And the Saints often find and profess it they are helped