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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.
5. When the time appointed and determined before, in the counsel of the Lord is come, then the prayer of our Saviour ever takes place, and makes the means effectual and prevailingly successful for the good of such, for whom he hath taken the care. Joh. 10.16. I have other sheep, which are not yet of this fold, (such as in his counsel, were ordained to life, yet not called to the saving knowledge of the truth:) them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice.
5. When the time appointed and determined before, in the counsel of the Lord is come, then the prayer of our Savior ever takes place, and makes the means effectual and prevailingly successeful for the good of such, for whom he hath taken the care. Joh. 10.16. I have other sheep, which are not yet of this fold, (such as in his counsel, were ordained to life, yet not called to the saving knowledg of the truth:) them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice.
These wandering sheep, that are gone astray from the walks of the Lord, yet he must bring: he must pluck the Adulterer from his lusts, and the Drunkard from his Cups, and worldling, who hath been Buried in his earthly occasions, these shall hear his voice; they are within his Ken, and under his care, and he provides for ⟨p. 28⟩their good, though they intend no good unto themselves. So Christ to Paul; (he is then pitying, while he is persecuting; he comes to save him, when he purposeth to destroy himself:) why persecutest thou me? Act. 9. So, Again he sends a Physician to him. Ananias, go &c. vers. 11.
These wandering sheep, that are gone astray from the walks of the Lord, yet he must bring: he must pluck the Adulterer from his lusts, and the Drunkard from his Cups, and worldling, who hath been Buried in his earthly occasions, these shall hear his voice; they are within his Ken, and under his care, and he provides for