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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.
We have dispatched the first. The second now follows. Viz. That God will have this believed by the ungodly world. And its possible they may, when the Saint attain this unity, Christ shall attain this glory even from the wicked, that they shall acknowledge his call and commission, ⟨p. 67⟩and so execution of this work of our Redemption.
We have dispach't the first. The second now follows. Viz. That God will have this beleeved by the ungodly world. And its possible they may, when the Saint attain this unity, Christ shall attain this glory even from the wicked, that they shall acknowledg his call and commission, ⟨p. 67⟩and so execution of this work of our Redemption.
For the explication hereof we may inquire; 1. What it meant by world. 2. How they are said to believe. 3. What do they believe in the sending of Christ, for which our Saviour so praise, and at which he so aims.
For the explication hereof we may inquire; 1. What it meant by world. 2. How they are said to beleeve. 3. What do they beleeve in the sending of Christ, for which our Savior so praise, and at which he so aimes.
1. WORLD here] not to trouble with any thing Impertinent or superfluous, i• is put for the WICKED of the world, who have their hearts, inheritance, and happiness here, therefore go no higher, look of further.