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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.
We have now gained the first: what kind of unity this is. We are now to inquire, wherein this consists, or how it may be discerned.
The explication of this, will be the interpretation of the words of the Text, which follow; which are applied (as far as yet I can conceive by the most sad consideration) unto this very purpose now in hand. For when our Saviour had prayed; That they might be one; That they might aright understand it, and so, the exceeding love of Christ; who did not seek, nor so obtain (for he is ever heard in what he asks) any mean or ordinary blessing, or common courtesy for them, for their present comfort and refreshing. But the choicest mercy, a blessing of incomparable worth and surpassing excellency; That, I say, they might understand this and receive suitable comfort for it; He adds, by way of explication, what he meaneth, with as much plainness, as such a spiritual mystery, which touched the very inward Heart-Blood of our happiness could be discovered. q. d. If you ask what I mean by this unity, and whereby it may de discerned: I answer by this familiar comparison: As I am in the Father, and he in me, so I wish, they may be one in us. So that here we must unfold, 1. How the Son is one in the Father, & he one in him. 2. Then conceive after what manner the Saints and believers must be one in them, for this Christ hath prayed: this he hath obtained: this shall undoubtedly be received.
The explication of this, wil be the interpretation of the words of the Text, which follow; which are applied (as far as yet I can conceive by the most sad consideration) unto this very purpose now in hand. For when our Savior had prayed; That they might be one; That they might aright understand it, and so, the exceeding love of Christ; who did not seek, nor so obtain (for he is ever heard in what he asks) any mean or ordinary blessing, or common courtesie for them, for their present comfort and refreshing. But the choicest mercy, a blessing of incomparable worth and surpassing excellency; That, I say, they might understand this and receive sutable comfort for it; He addes, by way of explication, what he meaneth, with as much plainness, as such a spiritual mystery, which touched the very inward Heart-Blood of our happiness could be discovered. q. d. If you ask what I mean by this unity, and whereby it may de discerned: I answer by this familiar comparison: As I am in the Father, and he in me, so I wish, they may be one in us. So that here we must unfold, 1. How the Son is one in the Father, & he one in him. 2. Then conceive after what manner the Saints and beleevers must be one in them, for this Christ hath prayed: this he hath obtained: this shall undoubtedly be received.