A44344:1452
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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But to find, and own this, in the reality of the Work of it; to tract the foot-steps of the unsearchable Wisdom, and Riches of Mercy in marking this good upon their Souls, in that miraculous, and my sterious manner ⟨p. 432⟩as he hath: this is peculiar to the Saints.
These, and these alone, know that Christ is sent to this Work: these have found the excellency of it here; and these are fit to gaze upon it, and admire it for ever hereafter.
Three things we are to open: 1. How Christ is said to be sent of the Father. 2. For what he is sent; and what was his Errand. 3. How the Saints know this in a special manner.
1. How sent.