A44344:117
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.
IN this 17. Chapter: We have a most heavenly prayer of our Saviour, expressed immediately before his departure hence, which I suppose he presents to the Father, not as a man, or yet Minister of the Circumcision, unto whom he was sent, but as Mediator, & is part of that Intercession, which he performeth in the behalf of his Church and people. And being now shortly to offer up himself, and to lay down his life for his Children, and to go out of the World, (as though his soul had been transported into the Suburbs of Heaven, as though he would unbowel ⟨p. 2⟩his dearest and heart-blood desires into the bosom of his Father) he sends this prayer before-hand in the power of his Intercession, to lie ledger there in the behalf of his Disciples and faithful ones, that so he might fully provide for their everlasting life and spiritual welfare, before he left his own life, and provide comfort in Heaven to be sent down to them, before he left the Earth, and went to Heaven.
IN this 17. Chapter: We have a most heavenly prayer of our Savior, expressed immediately before his departure hence, which I suppose he presents to the Father, not as a man, or yet Minister of the Circumcision, unto whom he was sent, but as Mediator, & is part of that Intercession, which he performeth in the behalf of his Church and people. And being now shortly to offer up himself, and to lay down his life for his Children, and to go out of the World, (as though his soul had been transported into the Suburbs of Heaven, as though he would unbowel ⟨p. 2⟩his dearest and heart-blood desires into the bosom of his Father) he sends this prayer before-hand in the power of his Intercession, to lie leidger there in the behalf of his Disciples and faithful ones, that so he might fully provide for their everlasting life and spiritual welfare, before he left his own life, and provide comfort in Heaven to be sent down to them, before he left the Earth, and went to Heaven.
A Prayer of unconceivable and incomparable worth, above all that ever was expressed or recorded in the word: Like a confection or compound of those sovereign excellencies; beyond the highest strain of the desires or conceivings of the souls of the Saints.