A44344:390
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.
2. How the world are said to believe Christs sending.
2. How the world are said to beleeve Christs sending.
Answ. It cannot be meant of saving Faith the faith of Gods Elect, or that Faith, by which we believe unto Salvation: for that Faith which is here meant, wicked men should, and its certain sooner or later they shall attain, for its that which the Father intends and aims at, and our Saviour Christ looked at, as his scope in his prayer: and we know that the Father never fails to accomplish what he intends, nor our Saviour to attain what he prays for. But this our Saviour aims at in his prayer, as one principal scope and end of it.
Answ. It cannot be meant of saving Faith the faith of Gods Elect, or that Faith, by which we beleeve unto Salvation: for that Faith which is here meant, wicked men should, and its certain sooner or later they shal attain, for its that which the Father intends and aims at, and our Savior Christ looked at, as his scope in his prayer: and we know that the Father never fails to accomplish what he intends, nor our Savior to attain what he prayes for. But this our Savior aimes at in his praier, as one principal scope and end of it.
There is therefore in the second place, a Faith which doth belong even to the wicked, which is truly termed or called Faith in the language of the Scripture, and the common speech of men, I say truly called Faith though i• be not truly saving. Joh. 12.42, 43. Many believed on him, but durst not confess him, for they loved the pra•e f men, moe than of God. Thee is saith then: and men do also believe, who love the praise of men more, than of God: but this no man can do and believe savingly.