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.

USE 1.

CAUTION: To al, especially the wicked and enemies of the Saints: That they do not offend and wrong them, or do the least evil to them because they do wrong to the Lord Jesus, and he so takes it, as to himself. Act. 9. Saul, why persecutest thou me? And the sufferings of the Saints for a good cause are cal∣led the sufferings of Christ. 2. Cor. 1.5. Thus the Lord sends to Sennacherib. Isa. 37.28. I know thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. It was bent against Hezekiah and the people of Jerusa∣lem, but it was against the Lord, in them.

True it is, The wicked see not, know not, consider not this, being blinded with Ignorance and Malice; and therefore Paul asks the question, when Christ speaks, Who art thou Lord? q. d. I own not thy speech, nor understand thy person. Our Savior answers, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

Yea this wil be for the condemnation of their persons and confusion of their faces, at the day of Judgment, when the Saints in this sentence shal be honored, and they set down, for ever abased before their faces. Depart ye cursed &c. For I was in prison and ye visited me not &c. Why, When Lord saw we thee &c. They were not acquainted with the presence of our Savior. He add, In that ye did it not to one of these, ye 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 Ar∣gument. 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.