A44344:1355
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 the Reason, and frame of the Words, fully lay open unto us at the first view. And hence it is, that they are set forth unto us by way of Contradiction, which carry the Contrariety of the largest extent that can be. Contradiction divides the whole breadth of being or entity, all come within the compass of one of the sides. The World hath not known thee, I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
This the Reason, and frame of the Words, fully lay open unto us at the first view. And hence it is, that they are set forth unto us by way of Contradiction, which carry the Contrariety of the largest extent that can be. Contradiction divides the whol breadth of being or entity, al come within the compass of one of the sides. The World hath not known thee, I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Knowledge it is, that makes way for the allowance, and choice of the heart; for the stirring and moving of the Affections; for the exercise, and putting forth of all such Operations, that issue from them, and the whole man. Therefore if they do not know him, then not choose him, love him, fear him, desire, delight in him, serve him, or seek his Glory in the least measure. And hence there is a contrariety betwixt Christ, Christians, and the World, in the whole compass, and largest extent that can be conceived, either in disposition, or action. And this is made the Evidence, and Ground why the World hath nothing to do with God, nor Spirit, in the things of Grace,