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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.
The special things which he begs, as that which concerns their, eternal welfare, is only this, and in truth, ⟨p. 37⟩almost all, or more than all is contained in it viz. That they all may be one.
The special things which he begs, as that which concerns their, eternal wellfare, is only this, and in truth, ⟨p. 37⟩almost al, or more than al is contained in it viz. That they al may be one.
This is Propounded first, Amplified by several circumstances in the 21, 22, 23. verses,
1. By the special nature of this unity, or Oneness; what is meant and understood, namely, to be one in them, laid out by way of resemblance: As the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father, so they should be one in them. 2. From the end why, Namely, the lifting up of the honour of Christ in the Hearts and acknowledgements of the ungodly, even by a constraining evidence, whether they will or no: their own consciences will yield it, and their mouths also confess it at the day of Judgment; That Christ was sent from the Bosom of the Father, to bring his servants unto himself, when he passed by the greatest part of the world; as he found them, so left them in their sins. 3. The means by which they come to attain this so great a privilege verse 22. I have given them the glory, thou gavest unto me, that they may be one, as we are one. 4. The order how this is dispensed, how received: dispensed from God, received by them. verse 23. To-wit, Christ should be in them, the Father in Christ, and so they should be made perfect in one. And here the end is repeated and enlarged also further, That the world may know, that he hath sent his Son for this end, and that he hath loved them, as he loved him.