A44344:131
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.
It was not only then, when the Apostles were preaching and planting, not only there and in those coasts, where the sound of the Gospel was Glorious and Famous: But whoever did then, and whoever shall believe, unto the end of the world• for After-times, in all ages, and in all places, in an ordinary course of Gods dispensations, (leaving secret exceptions, or miraculous proceedings in the privy purpose of his counsel) there never was, nor shall be any under the power of Christs prayer, or possessed with the truth of saving Faith, but by this means, and this only.
It was not onely then, when the Apostles were preaching and planting, not onely there and in those coasts, where the sound of the Gospel was Glorious and Famous: But whoever did then, and whoever shal beleeve, unto the end of the world• for After-times, in al ages, and in al places, in an ordinary course of Gods dispensations, (leaving secret exceptions, or miraculous proceedings in the privy purpose of his counsel) there never was, nor shal be any under the power of Christs prayer, or possessed with the truth of saving Faith, but by this meanes, and this onely.