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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.
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,
The things he prays for, may be referred to these two Heads: 1. What concerns their spiritual welfare here, in this life, at least in the taste and beginnings of it. 2. What may maintain the top and height of their glory in another world, in the meeting, concurrence, and continuance of all that special happiness they shall attain unto. Father, I will, that those, which thou hast given me, may be, where I am. q. d.
The things he prayes for, may be referred to these two Heads: 1. What concernes their spiritual wellfare here, in this life, at least in the tast and beginnings of it. 2. What may maintain the top and height of their glory in another world, in the meeting, concurrence, and continuance of al that special happiness they shall attain unto. Father, I will, that those, which thou hast given me, may be, where I am. q. d.
He would not live in Heaven, unless he might have his members with him; not content to be in glory, unless they might be the Spectators of it, and sharers; that he might be in them, and the love of God in them for ever.