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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.
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.
A Prayer of unconceiveable and incomparable worth, above al that ever was expressed or recorded in the word: Like a confection or compound of those soveraigne excellencies; beyond the highest strayn of the desires or conceivings of the souls of the Saints.
That which contains the quintessence or the pith of all the cordials of the Gospel; the very marrow of all that great redemption, he had wrought and purchased: the highest pitch of all that happiness, which Heaven can afford, or the very richest Diamond in the crown of Glory: for that we may see, he here prays for something beyond glory, that for which glory was made, and therefore better than glory it self, for so the words: I have given them my Glory, that they may be one, as we are one. So that that is the end of Glory, and therefore better than Glory, able to carry the heart beyond all the riches of admiration.
That which containes the quintessence or the pith of al the cordialls of the Gospel; the very marrow of al that great redemption, he had wrought and purchased: the highest pitch of al that happiness, which Heaven can afford, or the very richest Diamond in the crown of Glory: for that we may see, he here prayes for something beyond glory, that for which glory was made, and therefore better than glory it self, for so the words: I have given them my Glory, that they may be one, as we are one. So that that is the end of Glory, and therefore better than Glory, able to carry the heart beyond al the riches of admiration.
This is expressed in the parts of it according to the parties for whom it is made, and those are two.