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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
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.
Thus our Saviour makes it the Head Corner Stone of our Confidence: This is Eternal Life, to know thee (that is, the Father) to be only God (not he only to be God, but to be the only God) there is but one only Deity, and he hath that only God-head, and what beside? and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ. Know him as a Christ, anointed, and fitted; and as a Jesus, a Saviour, who hath performed the work; and that he is ⟨p. 433⟩sent for that very End, and Errand, and for that purpose from God the Father.
Thus our Savior makes it the Head Corner Stone of our Confidence: This is Eternal Life, to know thee (that is, the Father) to be only God (not he only to be God, but to be the only God) there is but one only Deity, and he hath that only God-head, and what beside? and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ. Know him as a Christ, annointed, and fitted; and as a Jesus, a Savior, who hath performed the work; and that he is ⟨p. 433⟩sent for that very End, and Errand, and for that purpose from God the Father.
For had our Saviour done it, if he had not been sent, the Soul would have been at a loss, whether he had ever satisfied, or should ever be accepted.
For had our Savior done it, if he had not been sent, the Soul would have been at a loss, whether he had ever satisfied, or should ever be accepted.
But when our Faith can reach this: That the Father, who is the only God, hath sent him, he will then assist, and accept, and we should go no further, seek no other; we then •it down, and are at rest,