A44344:1261
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. A description of the person, to whom the Prayer is made; Righteous Father; an expression not recorded in all the new Testament beside: nor can I suddenly find it in all the Old. As though it were reserved on purpose for this place. And for this Prayer of our Saviour. 2. The Prayer it self, wherein are four Particular.⟨p. 385⟩ 1. The thing our Saviour eyes and desires: in the last words, That the love &c. 2. The Party who entreats in their behalf. 3. The persons for whom; whose worth and excellency is here set forth by their effects, and that special Communion, and Communication, or intercourse between them and the Father. 1. I know thee. 2. These also know that thou hast sent me. 3. A dis-similitude, and unlike Condition of the wicked; The World doth not know thee. 4. The Means here used, and that which is resolved on, to be improved for this end, that it may be attained, which is sought for with such earnestness: I have manifested thy Name, and will manifest it.
1. A description of the person, to whom the Prayer is made; Righteous Father; an expression not recorded in al the new Testament beside: nor can I sodainly find it in al the Old. As though it were reserved on purpose for this place. And for this Prayer of our Savior. 2. The Prayer it self, wherein are four Particular.⟨p. 385⟩ 1. The thing our Savior eyes and desires: in the last words, That the love &c. 2. The Party who intreats in their behalf. 3. The persons for whom; whose worth and excellency is here set forth by their effects, and that special Communion, and Communication, or intercourse between them and the Father. 1. I know thee. 2. These also know that thou hast sent me. 3. A dis-similitude, and unlike Condition of the wicked; The World doth not know thee. 4. The Means here used, and that which is resolved on, to be improved for this end, that it may be attained, which is sought for with such earnestness: I have manifested thy Name, and will manifest it.
Begin we with the Description of the Person, Righteous Father.