A44344:1212
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.
For Answer, enquire two Things: 1. What this Beholding implies. 2. The Manner how it is done.
First: The Word translated here, to Behold, carries three things in it.
1. An attentive eye, and a settled holding of our Mind and thoughts about the things that are presented to our understanding, Heb. 7.4. Now consider how great this man was. When the holy Apostle would draw the Hebrews to the serious attendance of the excellency of the Type, and so of our Saviour, who was typified by Melchizedek; he bid them to consider; hold their thoughts bent to the object of so worthy attention. 2. It implies a through viewing of the whole compass of any thing thus presented to consideration, and so the word is very often used among Heathen Authors, to pass as a Traveller from one place to another, to acquaint ⟨p. 371⟩a mans self with the manners, and condition of the place, and people, to the full. So when the Mind travels to and fro in a serious contemplation of that which is offered to our Apprehensions, with a careful search and observation, to take the scantling of whatever on circumstances of any conceived worth may be in it. Luke, 23.49. It's said the women that followed Christ from Galilee stood aloof off, beholding those things. They kept all the carriages and occurrences of what be•el our Saviour from first to last. 3. Not only a mans apprehension comes to be exercised, as in the two former; but the quality and nature of the thing, comes so to be taken into our observation and consideration; That the heart comes to be experimentally affected therewith,