A44344:1008
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.
We shall take them asunder, and so handle the several branches; otherwise we shall not so readily and familiarly and distinctly open the particulars therein, some whereof desire and deserve special consideration and explication, Namely, What is that glory that Christ hath, and how it is said to be given him?
We shal take them asunder, and so handle the several branches; otherwise we shal not so readily and familiarly and distinctly open the particulars therein, some whereof desire and deserve special consideration and explication, Namely, What is that glory that Christ hath, and how it is said to be given him?
To begin the with the first Branch.
The Lord Jesus is gone to Heaven.
This was Shadowed out by his Transfiguration. Math. 17.2, 3. When Moses and Elijah came down to see this preparative of his departure, to give tidings of it. Of the passage of our Saviour the Apostles give in undeniable evidence, as such, wherein they could not be deceived, nor deceive. For it was not done, when they were heedlessly looking about them and so might easily be mistaken: but while they looked steadfastly, wishly, considerately, towards Heaven, even while they were gazing upon our Saviour, he was taken up into Heaven.