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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.
Answer in four things.
1. He is appointed and set apart to this great employment and Embassy. Joh. 6.27. For him hath God the Father sealed. Jsa. 49.5. I have formed thee from the Womb, to be my servant, to bring Jacob again. And verse, 6.—That thou mayest be my Salvation to the end of the Earth.
1. He is appointed and set apart to this great imployment and Ambassage. Joh. 6.27. For him hath God the Father sealed. Jsa. 49.5. I have formed thee from the Womb, to be my servant, to bring Jacob again. And verse, 6.—That thou maist be my Salvation to the end of the Earth.
He is now in Gods counsel and everlasting decree designed to this so great a work, and in his season called out to the execution, sent from his Bosom abroad into this world, to act the great affairs of Gods everlasting purposes, touching the recovery of man.
He is now in Gods counsel and everlasting decree designed to this so great a work, and in his season called out to the execution, sent from his Bosom abroad into this world, to act the great affaires of Gods everlasting purposes, touching the recovery of man.