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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
Verse 21: Christ's Prayer FOR BELIEVERS.Verse 21: Christ's Prayer FOR BELEEVERS.
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.
To pray and purchase that for his faithful ones, that they, who are, by nature and sin, enemies against him, and opposite unto him, may in a proportionable manner, as far, as their meanness is capable, be as near to him, as he to his Father: a Poor creature durst not have begged so Rich a favour, could not expect it, and is hardly brought to believe it possible. As he: Is it true indeed, that God will dwell in a Tabernacle made with hands? behold, the Heaven of Heavens is not able to contain him, how much less, this House, this Heart? or as he: I am not worthy, thou shouldest come under my roof.
To pray and purchase that for his faithful ones, that they, who are, by nature and sin, enemies against him, and opposite unto him, may in a proportionable manner, as far, as their meanness is capable, be as near to him, as he to his Father: a Poor creature durst not have begd so Rich a favor, could not expect it, and is hardly brought to beleeve it possible. As he: Is it true indeed, that God will dwell in a Tabernacle made with hands? behold, the Heaven of Heavens is not able to contain him, how much less, this House, this Heart? or as he: I am not worthy, thou shouldest come under my roof.
Yet our Saviour excludes not the meanest, embraceth all in the Arms and Bowels of his compassion. That they all may be one: even such silly, Poor, despicable ones, may be one in us. Nor yet is the work more glorious, than the discovery mysterious, deep, and unsearchable, one in us, as I in thee, and thou in me, which we may rather adore, than imagine we can conceive,
Yet our Savior excludes not the meanest, imbraceth al in the Arms and Bowels of his compassion. That they all may be one: even such silly, Poor, despicable ones, may be one in us. Nor yet is the work more glorious, than the discovery mysterious, deep, and unsearchable, one in us, as I in thee, and thou in me, which we may rather adore, than imagine we can conceive,