A44344:211
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.
So the text gives in, undeniable evidence; even before ⟨p. 23⟩many had any being in Nature, and when some were, and others should be brought into the world, and had neither mind to know God nor Heart to seek after Christ, or to pray for themselves. Yet here ye see, our Saviour takes in all those now within the compass of his prayer and care, to provide for them, and to contrive all for their good, when they neither did, nor could care for him, or for themselves: therefore its plain.
So the text gives in, undeniable evidence; even before ⟨p. 23⟩many had any being in Nature, and when some were, and others should be brought into the world, and had neither mind to know God nor Heart to seek after Christ, or to pray for themselves. Yet here ye see, our Savior takes in al those now within the compass of his prayer and care, to provide for them, and to contrive all for their good, when they neither did, nor could care for him, or for themselves: therefore its plain.