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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.
I call it here an Interceding Prayer, because herein his Intercession is in a special manner both expressed and accomplished. For it is not to be attended as a prayer which he put up, as man alone, or as the minister of the Circumcision, as the Apostle calls him. Rom. 15.8. For then it can avail no further, then the prayer of a man without sin will do: and answerable to that kind of willing. Math. 23.37. How often would I have gathered them &c.
I cal it here an Interceding Prayer, because herein his Intercession is in a special manner both expressed and accomplished. For it is not to be attended as a prayer which he put up, as man alone, or as the minister of the Circumcision, as the Apostle calls him. Rom. 15.8. For then it can avail no further, then the prayer of a man without sin will do: and answerable to that kind of willing. Math. 23.37. How often would I have gathered them &c.
But its here the special work of Intercession, and proceeds from him, as God and man, Mediator of his elect and faithful, and so Intercession in their behalf: That being (as I told you) shortly to offer up himself, he sends his prayer, as the great high Priest of his Church, in power of his Intercession, to lie Ledger there in the behalf of his beloved Children, that he might provide in Heaven for them, before he lest the Earth. And this prayer is part of that Intercession he now puts forth, at the right Hand of the Father. So that the Sum in short is.
But its here the special work of Intercession, and proceeds from him, as God and man, Mediator of his elect and faithful, and so Intercession in their behalf: That being (as I told you) shortly to offer up himself, he sends his prayer, as the great high Priest of his Church, in power of his Intercession, to lie Leidger there in the behalf of his beloved Children, that he might provide in Heaven for them, before he lest the Earth. And this prayer is part of that Intercession he now puts sorth, at the right Hand of the Father. So that the Sum in short is.