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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.
Answ. Our Saviour looks at three things.
Answ. Our Savior looks at three things.
1. That he had the right of Commission delivered by the Father into his hand, to attend this work, as being in especial manner appointed and designed thereunto. Joh. 6.27. 2, That he had fullness of Power, of dispensation of this, not only called, but authori•ed, enabled, and furnished with all power and Grace, and that beyond measure, for the discharge and performance of this weighty change; as to be the Salvation of God, unto the ends of the Earth. 3. That he hath not only undertaken it, but fully, in all particulars, accomplished that, for which he was thus designed and also furnished from God the Father Joh. 17.4. I have finished the work thou gavest me to do. For these are the three main difficulties, where the corrupt hearts of men come off most hardly, and about which they make heaviest opposition against the ⟨p. 74⟩greatest work of our Redemption.
1. That he had the right of Commission delivered by the Father into his hand, to attend this work, as being in especial manner appointed and designed thereunto. Joh. 6.27. 2, That he had fulness of Power, of dispensation of this, not only called, but authori•ed, enabled, and furnished with al power and Grace, and that beyond measure, for the discharge and performance of this weighty change; as to be the Salvation of God, unto the ends of the Earth. 3. That he hath not only undertaken it, but fully, in all particulars, accomplished that, for which he was thus designed and also furnished from God the Father