A44344:1448
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.
These, all these, and none but these, have this Knowledge, as their privilege, and peculiar Favour appropriated to them: in which the World hath no Portion, nor yet shall ever be made Partakers of it.
These, all these, and none but these, have this Knowledg, as their priviledg, and peculiar Favor appropriated to them: in which the World hath no Portion, nor yet shal ever be made Partakers of it.
At the great Day, when all Flesh shall appear before God, and all his Saints gathered, and by Christ brought home to the Father, when he hath fully finished the Work, and done the Will of the Father: That as he now professeth, I came not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me: and this is the will of him that sent me, That of those that thou hast given me, I should lose none, but raise them up at the last day.
At the great Day, when al Flesh shal appear before God, and al his Saints gathered, and by Christ brought home to the Father, when he hath fully finished the Work, and done the Wil of the Father: That as he now professeth, I came not to do mine own wil, but the wil of him that sent me: and this is the wil of him that sent me, That of those that thou hast given me, I should lose none, but raise them up at the last day.
Then I say, when the Work is finished, and performed in the Eyes of the Ungodly, and he shall be admired in his Saints; not of them only, but admired in them, even by the Wicked, who shall be forced to admire that Power, and Love, and Mercy, which hath done such great things for such undeserving Creatures: and therefore shall see it, and be constrained to acknowledge the truth and reality of that great Work: what the Father purposed, and plotted from Eternity with the Lord Jesus; how out of infinite Love and. Faithfulness he was sent, and hath now accomplished it.