A44344:1362
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.
As God is the first cause of truth and goodness, and from his fullness all the beams and streams of truth are derived to any who share therein: So Satan is the first cause of falsehood and wickedness, and therefore called. The Wicked one; And from him all wickedness is derived. And hence ungodly men are called The Seed of the Serpent. Gen. 3.15. They are said to be of that Wicked one. 1 Joh. 3.11. Cain was of that Wicked one; Put in way of opposition, To be born of God. This I take to be the meaning of those Phrases and texts, which hence receive their explication, as belonging I conceive, properly to this place. Joh. 8.23. When our Saviour would show the distance and great disagreement ⟨p. 411⟩between himself and the wretched and ungodly Jews, he speaks, Ye are from beneath, I am from above. Ye are of this world, I am not of this world. Joh. 17.14. I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of this world, even as I am not of this world. Here we have the Well-head of hatred, because they are not of the world. And we see that this agrees to Christ, as to them, and to them, by means of Christ; that as he speaks else where. Joh. 8.28. He can do nothing, but what he sees his Father do. Joh. 14.10. The words that I speak, I speak not of my self, but the Father that dwelleth in me, As the first person dwells in the second, he is thus from the Father, and works from the Father. So his Saints and faithful are of and from the Father, by him. Whereas the wicked, They are of the world. That is, their dispositions which are corrupt, they issue firstly from Sa•an, who cast's in his Seed of rebellion into their hearts, according to which they are framed. And upon this ground, he is called the God of the world. As he is firstly evil and cannot but be evil, and all evil is from him, that is in the world. For by his wickedness, all the world and wicked comes to be tainted, and by the leaven of his wickedness, defiled. Their minds, so far as erroneous, are made up of his delusions. Their hearts, as they are stubborn and ungodly, are made up of his rebellions.