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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.
I must crave leave under favour and correction to step aside from the common Road, the usual apprehension of many Interpreters; whose Judgment and knowledge I highly prize and reverence, and with whom I could desire to concur, and easily so should, but that Evidences out of the Text (to my seeming and shallowness at least) are so clear, that they constrain my Judgment to go a little aside. I Answer therefore;
I must crave leave under favour and correction to step aside from the common Road, the usual apprehension of many Interpreters; whose Judgment and knowledg I highly prize and reverence, and with whom I could desire to concur, and easily so should, but that Evidences out of the Text (to my seeming and shallowness at least) are so cleer, that they constrain my Judgment to go a little aside. I Answer therefore;
1. Negatively. 2. Affirmatively.
Negatively: The union of love and concord with the faithful, as the members of the same Body ought to maintain in their hearts and consciences, and in their ⟨p. 39⟩converse and societies one with another; keeping that unity of spiritual agreement in the bond of peace: to think the same thing, and speak the same thing: to be of the same mind and Heart, as it was said of them in the Primitive times; Act. 1.14. They continued with one accord, and Chapter 4.32. The multitude of them which believed, were of one mind, and one Heart.
Negatively: The union of love and concord with the faithful, as the members of the same Body ought to maintain in their hearts and consciences, and in their