A44344:1509
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.
2. Comfort, of never failing assurance of our safety and happiness. It's the will of the Father, and that must stand; and Christ is sent to do his will, and he will not fail of doing that, for which he was appointed; and therefore thou canst not fail of Heaven. Christ professeth (John, 6.38, 39.) he came to do the Will of the Father, and this is his Will, That he should lose none, but raise them up at the last day; and he resolves he will lose none, but he will raise them up, verse 40.
2. Comfort, of never failing assurance of our safety and happiness. It's the wil of the Father, and that must stand; and Christ is sent to do his wil, and he wil not fail of doing that, for which he was appointed; and therefore thou canst not fail of Heaven. Christ professeth (John, 6.38, 39.) he came to do the Wil of the Father, and this is his Wil, That he should lose none, but raise them up at the last day; and he resolves he wil lose none, but he wil raise them up, verse 40.
We have done with the Two former Things which were to be attended in the Explication. 1. What it was to be sent. 2. Why, or for what End he was sent.
III. We are now to enquire touching the knowledge of this, so far as it comes in an especial manner to be appropriated to the Saints: And his is the third Particular to be opened, for the discovery of the former Point; are we shall only look at it in that peculiar respect, as it is a proper Brand for Christs Sheep, and a Livery of his Servants, and Followers. For so the Text intimates, and our Saviour speaks of it in that regard.