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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
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And surely he was by the same Divine hand as specially directed, both, in his Choice of this Scripture, for his Ground unto this Subject; which being the Conclusion of Christs most solemn last Prayer, must be supposed to express the very bottom of his heart, and what lay deepest therein, and therefore came forth last: As also in the Occasion on which he chose to preach these Sermons which was then, when this Union is designed to ⟨image 4⟩be sealed up to Believers more conspicuously than in other Ordinances, namely, at the Administration of the Lords Supper and towards his latter end: conjunct with the Solemnization whereof, even among his Apostles, it was that Christ did pour forth this Prayer unto his Father before his Death. And indeed he that is spiritual, and reads these Explanations, will readily find, and must acknowledge, that he was proportionably raised and assisted by a Gospel Spirit, as the Dignity of the Matter, and Solemnity of the Dignity of the Matter, and Solemnity of the Occasion, meeting in such a Conjunction, did require; it being found in experience, that according to the elevation of the Occasion, and Sublimity of the Matter discoursed of, the Holy Ghost raiseth, and enlargeth the Spirits of an holy man of God, that is experienced in what he speaks.
And surely he was by the same Divine hand as specially directed, both, in his Choyce of this Scripture, for his Ground unto this Subject; which being the Conclusion of Christs most solemn last Prayer, must be supposed to express the very bottom of his heart, and what lay deepest therein, and therfore came forth last: As also in the Occasion on which he chose to preach these Sermons which was then, when this Union is designed to ⟨image 4⟩be sealed up to Beleevers more conspicuously than in other Ordinances, namely, at the Administration of the Lords Supper and towards his latter end: conjunct with the Solemnization whereof, even among his Apostles, it was that Christ did pour forth this Prayer unto his Father before his Death. And indeed he that is spiritual, and reads these Explanations, will readily find, and must acknowledg, that he was proportionably raised and assisted by a Gospel Spirit, as the Dignity of the Matter, and Solemnity of the Dignity of the Matter, and Solemnity of the Occasion, meeting in such a Conjunction, did require; it being found in experience, that according to the elevation of the Occasion, and Sublimity of the Matter discoursed of, the Holy Ghost raiseth, and enlargeth the Spirits of an holy man of God, that is experienced in what he speaks.