A44344:190
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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Therefore he cannot but attain his end, and they also their happiness.
So he professeth, and hath left it upon record, to establish the Faith of all His, in their greatest shocks. Joh 11.41, 42. Father, I thank thee, that thou hast heard me; And I knew that thou hearest me always &c. Christ hath here proclaimed it, we may conclude, and that undoubtedly, that which he knows, who could not be deceived: we may know it for a truth, and that it will never deceive us. Christ is ever heard, and therefore the Saints shall always be assisted, supported, enabled to be faithful to the end, and in the end. If Christ may not be heard, then thou mayest not be helped: and if he will loose his prayer, then thou mayest loose thy comfort and grace. But that is incredible, this is impossible.
So he professeth, and hath left it upon record, to establish the Faith of al His, in their greatest shocks. Joh 11.41, 42. Father, I thank thee, that thou hast heard me; And I knew that thou hearest me alwaies &c. Christ hath here proclaimed it, we may conclude, and that undoubtedly, that which he knows, who could not be deceived: we may know it for a truth, and that it wil never deceive us. Christ is ever heard, and therefore the Saints shal alwaies be assisted, supported, inabled to be faithful to the end, and in the end. If Christ may not be heard, then thou maiest not be helped: and if he wil loose his prayer, then thou maiest loose thy comfort and grace. But that is incredible, this is impossible.
Besides how dishonourable is this Doctrine of falling away, unto the Lord Jesus, and the work of his Mediation, which in the Issue advanceth the power of our sin, and the policy of Satan, above the virtue of the death of Christ, and the power of the prayer of Christ; For it saith thus much: That the policy of Satan is more able to undermine us, than his prayer to preserve us: His temptation to destroy us, than the Intercession of Christ to save us.