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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.
And hence our Saviour professeth for the comfort of his disciples, That he went before to prepare a place for them. Joh. 14.4. In my Fathers House there be many mansions, I go to prepare a place for them. He as God-man, the Head of the Covenant, goes to Heaven: and the will bring all his to Heaven: by virtue thereof, he makes way for them thither, Room and entertainment there. Heaven is the Lords: the place of the God-Head: our Nature assumed follows that, and we our Nature.
And hence our Savior professeth for the comfort of his disciples, That he went before to prepare a place for them. Joh. 14.4. In my Fathers House there be many mansions, I go to prepare a place for them. He as God-man, the Head of the Covenant, goes to Heaven: and the wil bring al his to Heaven: by vertue thereof, he makes way for them thither, Room and entertainment there. Heaven is the Lords: the place of the God-Head: our Nature assumed follows that, and we our Nature.
Reas. 2. Taken from the Quality of his Office and the Manner of the dispensation and execution thereof. ⟨p. 219⟩He is sent as an Ambassador from the Father, to transact the work of Redemption, And to bring Jacob back again: And therefore in reason, he must return, and give an account unto God the Father, how the great Affairs of Redemption prosper under his hand. Thus he speaks usually. Joh. 13.3. Jesus Knowing, that is, considering this, That the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was to go to God, he forthwith addresseth himself to make way for his death, wherein the great weight of the work lay. q. d. He had received his commission from the Father, and he must give account to the Father again. And upon this he intimates his departure.