A44344:1392
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.
I say the knowledge of the Father, for that is constantly to be carried along with us, in our consideration, and to be kept in our Eye, that we may keep to the scope of the place and aim of our Saviour in his Prayer and expression.
I say the knowledg of the Father, for that is constantly to be carried along with us, in our consideration, and to be kept in our Eye, that we may keep to the scope of the place and aime of our Savior in his Prayer and expression.
For he looks at him, as we have showed, as a righteous Father, such a one as doth dispense his Fatherly affection in Faithfulness unto his. And therefore those of the world, upon whom his Fatherly affection was never set: nor were they within the compass of the Covenant of his Grace, had no interest therein, to whom his Faithfulness and truth was never engaged, and therefore they could challenge nothing, nor yet was he •ound to accomplish any thing for their spiritual and eternal good; And therefore if our Saviour had prayed for them, that they should have been in Heaven, and have seen his glory, he had prayed for that, which the ⟨p. 421⟩