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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.
We have done with the first Part of the Point; we are now to enquire the meaning of the other. V•z.
That Christ hath unconceivable Glory, given him of the Father.
This is taken for granted, and presupposed, That they may behold the Glory which thou hast given me; therefore he hath Glory, and it's given of the Father: And of this now we are to enquire, with Modesty, and Godly fear, as being a search, and inquisition, far exceeding the meanness of such poor An•s as we be, creeping here upon ou• Molehills, sitting here upon our dunghills, compassed about with the Mud-walls of Mortality, Misery, and Corruption: An enquiry suitable for such as are come to the highest form the souls of the blessed now ascended, and the glorious Angels, who are before the Lord, and see his Face: They may search into the surpassing excellency of his Glory, which is far removed out of our sight, who sit here upon the Face of the Earth, at so far a distance from thence.
This is taken for granted, and presupposed, That they may behold the Glory which thou hast given me; therefore he hath Glory, and it's given of the Father: And of this now we are to enquire, with Modesty, and Godly fear, as being a search, and inquisition, far exceeding the meanness of such poor An•s as we be, creeping here upon ou• Molehils, sitting here upon our dunghils, compassed about with the Mud-wals of Mortality, Misery, and Corruption: An enquiry suitable for such as are come to the highest form the souls of the blessed now ascended, and the glorious Angels, who are before the Lord, and see his Face: They may search into the surpassing excellency of his Glory, which is far removed out of our sight, who sit here upon the Face of the Earth, at so far a distance from thence.