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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.
This care, and the virtue of this prayer of our Saviour will appear thus, in five Particulars.
This care, and the vertue of this prayer of our Savior will appear thus, in five Particulars.
Hence 1. It is, that the Lord contrives means in the ways of his. Providence for the bringing of these men into the world, so that the Parents and Predecessors of such, though happily desperately wicked and forlorn, shall yet have their stock and posterity continued in the world; because they shall bring these into the world, who shall believe. And therefore it is, the patience of ⟨p. 24⟩God is extended towards many a wicked parent, nay to the whole stock and Linage of vile and loose men; not for their sakes, but the sakes and cause of some that shall come of them, whom the Lord Christ doth purpose to bring to himself. Math. 24.22. Had not God shortened those days, no flesh had been saved: but for his Elects sake, the Lord shortened those days. i.e. The generation of the Jews now rejecting and most Hellishly blaspheming the Lord Jesus Christ, had so provoked the Eyes of the Lord; That should he in Justice have proceeded against them, and executed his righteous Judgments, either as the Nature of their sins deserved, or their Enemies intended, and out of their power and rage could easily have accomplished it, there had not been one Jew left alive to propagate their posterity, or name, or Nation.
Hence 1. It is, that the Lord contrives means in the waies of his. Providence for the bringing of these men into the world, so that the Parents and Predecessors of such, though happily desperately wicked and forlorn, shal yet have their stock and posterity continued in the world; because they shal bring these into the world, who shal beleeve. And therefore it is, the patience of ⟨p. 24⟩God is extended towards many a wicked parent, nay to the whole stock and Linage of vile and loose men; not for their sakes, but the sakes and cause of some that shal come of them, whom the Lord Christ doth purpose to bring to himself.