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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.
1 From their quality and special effect, they shall believe: and that from the generality of the Object, in Me. Time, Hereafter. Instrument by which it shall be wrought, by their word. 2. From a comparison of equality or parity. i. e. Christ prays not alone for the Apostles, but equally, but indifferently, for all, as well as they.
1 From their quality and special effect, they shal beleeve: and that from the generality of the Object, in Me. Time, Hereafter. Instrument by which it shal be wrought, by their word. 2. From a comparison of equality or parity. i. e. Christ prayes not alone for the Apostles, but equally, but indifferently, for al, as wel as they.
For Explication, there is nothing difficult but that: what is meant by their word.
That is the Gospel, which they published by preaching, or left upon record in writing, as they were inspired by the spirit: The Lord Christ providing therein for the good of his Church, unto the end of the world, that so they might have the path of life paved out before them, and a certain rule to guide them, until the end of the world. Not that none did formerly believe by the word of the Prophets in the Old Testament, for even then also the Gospel was preached, Gal. 3.8. Preached the Gospel to Abraham, in thy seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed. The word was preached to them, as well as to us, and it was a word of promise Heb. 4.1.2. And therefore the Apostle professed, He preached no other things, but what were contained and expressed in the law and the Prophets. Acts, 26.22. the Prophets and Moses did say, should come; the Prophets foretold, in the Types was prefigured, and in the Covenant expressed, in Genesis promised. So that this their word is opposed to two things.