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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.
It was impossible that any thing should hinder our Saviour from coming thither, and therefore he takes it as a thing done, That he is, as though he were certainly there already: q. d. I am now going to my death, and grave, and thence to rise again, and go to Heaven, and I am desirous they should be there also, I am not willing to be without them. And by consequence, the glory he mentions is the glory of Heaven. For should we look at his Present condition, it was the time of his Humiliation and the very season of his greatest abasement was growing on, when he was to undertake his sufferings and to empty himself of his glory. Philip. 2.7. He is said to make himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, humbled himself unto the death of the Cross; and as his present state was the time of his abasement: So his ASCENSION is called the time of his Glory, because that great discovery of his glory was reserved for that season, and was then made manifest. Joh. 17.4. Father glorify me with thy self, with the glory I had with thee, before the world was.
It was impossible that any thing should hinder our Savior from coming thither, and therefore he takes it as a thing done, That he is, as though he were certainly there already: q. d. I am now going to my death, and grave, and thence to rise again, and go to Heaven, and I am desirous they should be there also, I am not willing to be without them. And by consequence, the glory he mentions is the glory of Heaven. For should we look at his Present condition, it was the time of his Humiliation and the very season of his greatest abasement was growing on, when he was to undertake his sufferings and to empty himself of his glory. Philip. 2.7. He is said to make himself of no reputation, and took upon him the forme of a servant, humbled himself unto the death of the Cross; and as his present state was the time of his abasement: So his ASCENSION is called the time of his Glory, because that great discovery of his glory was reserved for that season, and was then made manifest. Joh. 17.4. Father glorifie me with thy self, with the glory I had with thee, before the world was.