A44344:1496
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.
1. In the manner of the work and Privilege, where with he stands possessed, he is the head of his Church, and hath the immediate dispensation of all power committed to him for the good of it, and these are peculiar. He is the Head of his Church. None but he. Al power is committed to him, and to none but him. But in regard of the work there is a common concurrence of all the Persons with him.
1. In the manner of the work and Priviledg, where with he stands possessed, he is the head of his Church, and hath the immediate dispensation of al power committed to him for the good of it, and these are peculiar. He is the Head of his Church. None but he. Al power is committed to him, and to none but him. But in regard of the work there is a common concurrence of al the Persons with him.
II. For what he is sent.
1. To bring Jacob again. Isa 49.5. Those I must bring. Joh. 10.16. All that he hath given me, come to me. Joh. 6.37. And Verse, 39. God gives them to him And Chap. 17.8. And he gives them his word, and they know that he is sent.