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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
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.
One which is the Foundation of the rest, is taken, as a thing granted, upon which ground the Prayer is made, To Wit, The presence of Christ and the glory of which Christ stands possessed; These are things supposed, only the Question ariseth, why Christ so earnestly desires their enjoyment of his presence, since now they had it, conversing with him, and he with them.
One which is the Foundation of the rest, is taken, as a thing granted, upon which ground the Prayer is made, To Wit, The presence of Christ and the glory of which Christ stands possessed; These are things supposed, only the Question ariseth, why Christ so earnestly desires their injoyment of his presence, since now they had it, conversing with him, and he with them.
What presence therefore doth our Saviour intend? or what is the glory here meant? Ans. True, our Saviour was now present with them, and they with him, and therefore that is not the thing he principally aims at: but he looks at his own being in Heaven, which was immediately to succeed his death; and he speaks of it, as a thing past, because of the infallible certainty thereof. As it is the usual course of Scripture, in the like case, so to express things. Rev. 18.2. Babylon is fallen, its fallen. It was to be undoubtedly, and therefore he speaks of it, as done certainly.
What presence therefore doth our Savior intend? or what is the glory here meant? Ans. True, our Savior was now present with them, and they with him, and therefore that is not the thing he principally aimes at: but he looks at his own being in Heaven, which was immediately to succeed his death; and he speaks of it, as a thing past, because of the infallible certainty thereof. As it is the usual course of Scripture, in the like case, so to express things. Rev. 18.2. Babylon is fallen, its fallen. It was to be undoubtedly, and therefore he speaks of it, as done certainly.