A44344:1305
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
Verse 25-26 › Point 2 › Application 3: USE, 3. A word of Reproof.
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.
2. The Prayer it self.
The second part comes now into consideration, Viz. The Prayer it self: where digressing from the order of the particulars as they were laid out in the opening of the text, and taking the words as they first come to hand, we shall begin with the description of the parties for whom the Prayer was made: and therein first that dissimilitude and unlike condition that is between the world and them. The World hath not known thee.
The second part comes now into consideration, Viz. The Prayer it self: where digressing from the order of the particulars as they were laid out in the opening of the text, and taking the words as they first come to hand, we shal begin with the description of the parties for whom the Prayer was made: and therein first that dissimilitude and unlike condition that is between the world and them. The World hath not known thee.
1. By WORLD is meant the wicked of the world. I pray not for the world, but for those that thou hast given me out of the world. Verse, 6.9. 1 Joh. 5.19. We know that we are of God, and the whole WORLD liveth in wickedness: Where these two are put in way of opposition; To be of God, to be begotten and called of him, and to be such As lie in Wickedness: they are such as be made up of Worldly Principles, take up their abode in wickedness, and are brought to bed in it.