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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.
1. Unity is the chiefest privilege for which Christ prays, and believers can partake of, as their peculiar good in themselves.
1. Ʋnity is the chiefest priviledg for which Christ prayes, and beleevers can partake of, as their peculiar good in themselves.
I add that, In themselves; because there be higher ends than this, in the Text: To-wit, the setting up of God in Christ in the Consciences of the ungodly, that they may be forced to confess, that God sent his Son to this end; That he loved them, as he loved Christ. There is yet another and higher end: That they may behold and wonder, and be swallowed up in the admiration of the glory of Christ, which the Father hath given him.
Enquire here, how far Christ being in the Saints, and his love in them, may yet be a higher end, than this.
2. This Unity is not the unity of affection between each other so much, but the unity of relation to God in Christ: That as the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father, by eternal generation; Believers so ought to be in both, by spiritual Adoption.