A44344:1106
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.
There were Three things, as ye have read before, in the words.
1 The Parties for whom Christ prays: such as the Father had given him. 2 What he prays for: That they might be where he is. 3 The end of this their being with Christ: That they might see the Glory which the Father had given him.
1 The Parties for whom Christ praies: such as the Father had given him. 2 What he praies for: That they might be where he is. 3 The end of this their being with Christ: That they might see the Glory which the Father had given him.
Before we could come at the Second of these, there was one Point, which was supposed, and taken for granted, which makes way for all those that follow: namely, That Christ was in Heaven, and did enjoy the fullness of Glory there, given him of the Father, and of both these, that is, both the Parts of the Point( 1. That Christ is in Heaven. 2. That he is possessed of the fullness of Glory, by gift from the Father, at his right hand, both as Second Person, and as Mediator, God and Man, Redeemer of the World )we have fully written.
Before we could come at the Second of these, there was one Point, which was supposed, and taken for granted, which makes way for al those that follow: namely, That Christ was in Heaven, and did enjoy the fulness of Glory there, given him of the Father, and of both these, that is, both the Parts of the Point( 1. That Christ is in Heaven. 2. That he is possessed of the fulness of Glory, by gift from the Father, at his right hand, both as Second Person, and as Mediator, God and Man, Redeemer of the World )we have fully written.