A44344:1308
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.
Because the God of this world rules in them. 2. Cor. 4.4.
Because the Spirit of the world acts them, perverted mutability, whereby they are under the power of the ⟨p. 396⟩Creature, that carries them along. 1 Cor. 2.12. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God. Because they take content in the things of the world, Mind earthly things. Phil. 3.19. Are Children of the World.
2. These Wicked persons do not know the Father. Know. That is, they have not a real and right conceiving of the Father, as in that Faithfulness and Fatherly affection, wherein he communicates himself to his. For in that special consideration this knowledge is here to be attended, and so restrained. He saith not, nor yet meaneth that they did not know God, or know the Father as God, or his Deity: for it is directly contrary to the expression and affirmation of the Apostle, touching the Gentiles in the general, look at them in the lump, as they lie in the loins of lost Adam. Rom. 1.18. They know God, but did not glorify God, as God: nay God is not only manifest to them, but in them. Verse, 19.
2. These Wicked persons do not know the Father. Know. That is, they have not a real and right conceiving of the Father, as in that Faithfulness and Fatherly affection, wherein he communicates himself to his. For in that special consideration this knowledg is here to be attended, and so restrained. He saith not, nor yet meaneth that they did not know God, or know the Father as God, or his Deity: for it is directly contrary to the expression and affirmation of the Apostle, touching the Gentiles in the general, look at them in the lump, as they lie in the loynes of lost Adam.