A44344:1117
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.
1. What we must understand this love to be. 2. How this love is the cause of this glory.
For the right discovery and discerning of this love, that we may come as near the mind of our Saviour and the meaning of the text, as we may, we shall with wariness, in some doubtful Seas, sound and cast several passages, that we may find, where the Channel lies.
For the right discovery and discerning of this love, that we may come as neer the mind of our Savior and the meaning of the text, as we may, we shal with warines, in some doubtful Seas, sound and cast several passages, that we may find, where the Channel lies.
1. It cannot then be taken for the spiritual and special fruits and effects of Gods love, which the Lord dispenseth to his, according to the good pleasure of his will, of which the Apostle speaks. Rom. 5.5. The love of God is shed abroad in our Hearts. This rather looks at the fountain, that those streams, for which Jude Prays, Grace, Peace, and Love be multiplied. Jude. 2. For this love is from eternity! so are not those fruits and expressions: because they are put forth in time.
1. It cannot then be taken for the spiritual and special fruits and effects of Gods love, which the Lord dispenseth to his, according to the good pleasure of his wil, of which the Apostle speaks. Rom. 5.5. The love of God is shed abroad in our Hearts. This rather looks at the fountain, that those streames, for which Jude Prayes, Grace, Peace, and Love be multiplied. Jude. 2. For this love is from eternity! so are not those fruits and expressions: because they are put forth in time.