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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.
And yet when the prayer of our Saviour shall attain his end, in the hearts of the Faithful, so that they shall be wholly carried to God in Christ, by the immutable assistance of his Spirit, their hearts kept with him, their graces acted upon him, themselves quickened by him, for ever: then all these, will they, nil they, shall by a constraint be forced to acknowledge, their own consciences will yield it, and their mouths confess it, at the day of Judgment; That Christ was the true Messiah, sent by the Father, and that he hath fully accomplished the great work of salvation, for the good of his. And God only shall be exalted in that day.
And yet when the prayer of our Savior shal attain his end, in the hearts of the Faithful, so that they shal be wholly carried to God in Christ, by the immutable assistance of his Spirit, their hearts kept with him, their graces acted upon him, themselves quickned by him, for ever: then al these, wil they, nil they, shal by a constraint be forced to acknowledg, their own consciences wil yield it, and their mouths confess it, at the day of Judgment; That Christ was the true Messias, sent by the Father, and that he hath fully accomplished the great work of salvation, for the good of his. And God only shal be exalted in that day.
There be two particulars in the words. We shall open all, and handle that which is the main.
1. Christ is sent by God the Father. 2. God will have this believed by the ungodly;
1. Christ is sent by God the Father. 2. God will have this beleeved by the ungodly;