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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.
This unity of amity, of love, and mutual and spiritual accord, is not the chief aim and intendment of the Text, nor yet the purpose of the prayer of our Saviour. Though indeed it may be collected and inferred from this: and to my apprehension, the very letter doth look another way, and speaks aloud touching another thing. For so,
This unity of amity, of love, and mutual and spiritual a•cord, is not the chief aim and intendment of the Text, nor yet the purpose of the prayer of our Savior. Though indeed it may be collected and inferred from this: and to my apprehension, the very letter doth look another way, and speaks aloud touching another thing. For so,
1. The words immediately following are marvellous plain and express, That they may be one in us. True it is, they should be, and those that have the same spirit. of love, as the same soul in many members, they will be of one and the same affection each to other: but that Christ now prays for, which presupposeth this, and is indeed the foundation thereof, is, Namely, that they be one in us: and then they will be at unity, one with another. Yea the very manner of speech, laid down by way of comparison and resemblance, seems to be added, as a further clearing and interpretation, of that which went before. That which was propounded there in the general, here comes more fully to be explicated; As though our Saviour had said, when I pray that all believers may be one, my meaning may thus be conceived, and my intendment rightly understood by this resemblance. As I am in the Father, and the Father in me: the scope of my prayer is; that they should be one in us, after their manner.
1. The words immediately following are marvailous plain and express, That they may be one in us. True it is, they should be, and those that have the same spirit. of love, as the same soul in many members, they wil be of one and the same affection each to other: but that Christ now prayes for, which presupposeth this, and is indeed the foundation thereof, is, Namely, that they be one in us: and then they wil be at unity, one with another. Yea the very manner of speech, laid down by way of comparison and resemblance, seems to be added, as a further clearing and interpretation, of that which went before. That which was propounded there in the general, here comes more fully to be explicated; As though our Savior had said, when I pray that al beleevers may be one, my meaning may thus be conceived, and my intendment rightly understood by this resemblance. As I am in the Father, and the Father in me: the scope of my prayer is; that they should be one in us, after their manner.