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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.
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.
So ye shall find the word used in this Chap. verse 9. I pray for them, I pray not for the world: where the opposition gives the true sense & explication of the word: they are here distinguished and differenced from those that were given to Christ, and to whom he hath given his word, and hearts to believe, and to whom he gave eternal life. The like ye have, 1 Joh. 5.4. We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. Where those two are put in opposition, to be of God, begotten of God, called to be Saints, out of the world. But those that are not begotten of God they are made up, as it were, of worldly principles, and they keep and take up their abode in wickedness, they are brought to bed in it.
So ye shall find the word used in this Chap. verse 9. I pray for them, I pray not for the world: where the opposition gives the true sense & explication of the word: they are here distinguished and differenced from those that were given to Christ, and to whom he hath given his word, and hearts to beleeve, and to whom he gave eternal life. The like ye have,