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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.
Its the meaning of that place. Gal. 3.19, 20. When the Apostle had showed the weakness of the Law, in the work of Justification, and the promise only carried it; He makes thing Objection; wherefore then served the Law, i.e. The giving of the Law? Answer; It was to discover transgression; and therefore it was given by the Hand of a Mediator, to-wit Moses, who was between God and the people.
Its the meaning of that place. Gal. 3.19, 20. When the Apostle had shewed the weakness of the Law, in the work of Justification, and the promise only carried it; He makes thig Objection; wherefore then served the Law, i.e. The giving of the Law? Answer; It was to discover transgression; and therefore it was given by the Hand of a Mediator, to-wit Moses, who was between God and the people.
Now, in that Moses was a Mediator, it shows there was diverse parties differing and disagreeing one from another: for a Mediator is not of one: not of parties that are at unity and agreement; but God is one, ever like himself and the same. Therefore the cause of difference was not on Gods part, but by Reason of transgression; which shows man to be other, than he was by Nature, full of guilt and sin, and that's the reason God is at odds with him, as he is departed from God.
Now, in that Moses was a Mediator, it shews there was diverse parties differing and disagreeing one from another: for a Mediator is not of one: not of parties that are at unity and agreement; but God is one, ever like himself and the same. Therefore the cause of difference was not on Gods part, but by Reason of trangression; which shews man to be other, than he was by Nature, ful of guilt and sin, and that's the reason God is at odds with him, as he is departed from God.