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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.
Verse 21. — That the world may believe, that thou hast sent me.
Verse 21. — That the world may beleeve, that thou hast sent me.
These last words lay out the main scope of the Prayer of our Saviour, at which he aimed, and which he looked at principally, by the grant of that spiritual unity which he craved in the behalf of his disciples. And the end is, To lift up the praise and honour of that supreme and absolute sovereignty of God the Father in sending; his own faithfulness and infinite sufficiency in executing and accomplishing the great work of Redemption, about which he was sent: so that there was nothing failed of all that the Father purposed, and he undertook to perform: and that the world and worst of men, however formerly they rebelled against his authority, counsel, and command in sending; rejected also the person and proceeding of our Saviour Christ in coming: who was a stumbling to the Jew, and foolishness to the Grecians; The Head-corner-stone whom the Jews refused, whom the Gentiles trampled under their feet: against whom both Jews and Gentiles banded themselves. So the Apostle Peter observes the Prophecy, and concludes by proof and experience and accomplishment of it. Act. 4.24, 25, 26, 27. Lord thou art God, which hast made Heaven and Earth, and the Sea, and all that in them is, who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, why did the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The Kings of the Earth stood up, and the rulers ⟨p. 57⟩were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ: for of a truth, against thy holy Child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together, &c. Let us break their bonds, and cast their cords away. I know not the Lord, says Pharaoh. We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, (so contemptuously they spake of Jesus) we know not whence he is.