A44344:1163
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. Hereby the Scope and End of the great Work of Restitution of lost man, is in part, and in an especial part thereof attained. This is the end of the Death and offering of our Saviour, Heb, 9.7, 8. But into the Second, went the High-Priest alone, once every Year, not without Blood; the Holy Ghost thus signifying, That the way into the Holy of Holies, (that is, into Heaven) was not yet made manifest, while the first Tabernacle was standing: but verse 11. Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come, not by the blood of Goats, but by his own Blood, he entered once into the Holy Place (that is, Heaven) having obtained eternal Redemption for us. So that we have boldness to enter into the Holiest of the Blood of Jesus, by a new, and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the Veil, that is, his Flesh. This is the Scope of his Resurrection and Ascension, John 14.3. In my Fathers House, there be many Mansions, I go to prepare a place for you, that is, He ascended into Heaven, that ⟨p. 357⟩by virtue of his Ascension, we also might arise, and ascend, and sit in Heavenly places with him. For Ascension doth firstly appertain to our Saviour; and from him, as our Head, it is communicated to us, as his Members. Had not the Second Adam ascended, for ought I can see, no Son of Adam had ever come into Heaven.
1. Hereby the Scope and End of the great Work of Restitution of lost man, is in part, and in an especial part thereof attained. This is the end of the Death and offering of our Savior, Heb, 9.7, 8. But into the Second, went the High-Priest alone, once every Yeer, not without Blood; the Holy Ghost thus signifying, That the way into the Holy of Holies, (that is, into Heaven) was not yet made manifest, while the first Tabernacle was standing: but verse 11. Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come, not by the blood of Goats, but by his own Blood, he entred once into the Holy Place (that is, Heaven) having obtained eternal Redemption for us. So that we have boldness to enter into the Holiest of the Blood of Jesus, by a new, and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the Vail, that is, his Flesh. This is the Scope of his Resurrection and Ascention, John 14.3. In my Fathers House, there be many Mansions, I go to prepare a place for you, that is, He ascended into Heaven, that