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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.
But the Lord had an Eye to his Elect, that should come of these, in the last Age of the world, after so many Ages and generations past, when their dead Bones shall live, and the Redeemer shall come out of Zion, and turn Jacob from iniquity, then all Israel shall be saved: So the Apostle. Rom. 11.28. Hated for their sins sake: but beloved for their Fathers sake, i.e. For Abraham, with whom, through Christ, the covenant of the Gospel was made to him, and to his Seed: i.e. To all the faithful, whether Jew or Gentile: but with the Jew first, and then with the Grecian. For this calling and covenant, being everlasting, is without repentance, and will assuredly take place, in the season thereof, when it shall be most suitable to show forth free grace.
But the Lord had an Eye to his Elect, that should come of these, in the last Age of the world, after so many Ages and generations past, when their dead Bones shal live, and the Redeemer shal come out of Sion, and turn Jacob from iniquity, then all Israel shal be saved: So the Apostle. Rom. 11.28. Hated for their sins sake: but beloved for their Fathers sake, i.e. For Abraham, with whom, through Christ, the covenant of the Gospel was made to him, and to his Seed: i.e. To al the faithful, whether Jew or Gentile: but with the Jew first, and then with the Graecian. For this calling and covenant, being everlasting, is without repentance, and wil assuredly take place, in the season thereof, when it shal be most sutable to shew forth free grace.
2. The Lord even so provides, that such means in an ordinary way of Providence, may be sent, continued, and dispensed to such, who never had a thought of them, enquired after them, or had a Heart to entertain them, when they are offered. Upon this ground the Lord appoints, and encourageth the Apostle. Act. 18.9, 10. Speak and hold not thy Tongue: Speak plainly and ⟨p. 25⟩