A44344:1387
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.
But if Christ knew the Father, and his Fatherly love, and that he was sent on purpose upon this Embassy: and being sent for this, did and doth endeavour this, and that for this end, that Christ and that Fatherly love might be in them, and the Saints know all this: Then he is sit to ask and obtain this mercy: they fit to receive it, and they shall glorify God herein, and he attain his glory, while he is pleased thus to grant the Prayer of our Saviour, and to glorify him and them.
But if Christ knew the Father, and his Fatherly love, and that he was sent on purpose upon this Ambassage: and being sent for this, did and doth indeavor this, and that for this end, that Christ and that Fatherly love might be in them, and the Saints know al this: Then he is sit to ask and obtain this mercy: they fit to receive it, and they shal glorifie God herein, and he attain his glory, while he is pleased thus to grant the Prayer of our Savior, and to glorifie him and them.
We have opened and finished that part of the description of the parties which was laid down by way of dissimilitude, ⟨p. 420⟩both, as the world, are considered in themselves, in regard of the ignorance they have of God: and as by way of dissimilitude they stand in reference, comparison, and consideration with our Saviour and his disciples.
We have opened and finished that part of the descripon of the parties which was laid down by way of dissimilitude, ⟨p. 420⟩both, as the world, are considered in themselves, in regard of the ignorance they have of God: and as by way of dissimilitude they stand in reference, comparison, and consideration with our Savior and his disciples.