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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.
This Head, though it lay in the Road of another Course of Ministry the Author held, namely, the opening the whole Work of the Application of our Redemption, in all the parts thereof (shortly to follow this into public view, so far as he had proceeded in it) whereof this of Union, was designed one (as by his Draught, or Scheme of that Work to be Prefaced to the whole, appears) and accordingly should have been largely treated on, Subject wise, apart by it self in its due place and order. Yet whether it was that himself, fore-apprehending he might not live so long (as he did not) to arrive thereat in that Method (and yet withal considering the more special necessity of this Subject to this Age) he therefore did anticipate this miscellaneous Treatment of it, is not for us to say▪ only we may surely affirm, that our all-wise God (who disposeth of the Gifts, Ministrations, ⟨image 3⟩and Operations of, and by his faithful Servants) he foreseeing all, secretly guided him to this Precursory handling of it in this way of Comment upon the seven last Verses of Christs last Prayer; which we may well suppose to have been intended by himself, but as a preliminary Essay of that more ample, and set Tractate on this Argument, he afterwards intended; because he intermingleth therewith, Observations about other high, and glorious Gospel Truths (whereof this Soil, of all other Scriptures, must be supposed most fertile) as the Text did give occasion.
This Head, though it lay in the Road of another Course of Ministry the Author held, namely, the opening the whol Work of the Application of our Redemption, in all the parts thereof (shortly to follow this into publick view, so far as he had proceeded in it) whereof this of Ʋnion, was designed one (as by his Draught, or Scheme of that Work to be Prefaced to the whol, appears) and accordingly should have been largely treated on, Subject wise, apart by it self in its due place and order. Yet whether it was that himself, fore-apprehending he might not live so long (as he did not) to arrive thereat in that Method (and yet withall considering the more special necessity of this Subject to this Age) he therefore did anticipate this miscellaneous Treatment of it, is not for us to say▪ only we may surely affirm, that our all-wise God (who disposeth of the Gifts, Ministrations, ⟨image 3⟩