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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.
Thus the Scribes and Pharisees were ready to quarrel his calling:1 The Messiah when he comes &c. But this man, whence he is, we know not. Joh. 9.29. God spake by Moses, but whence this man comes; We know not. And when the Blind man seemed but to speak favourably in this point; certainly, no man could do such and such thing•, unless God had sent him, They could not bear it. Joh. 9.33, 34.
Thus the Scribes and Pharisees were ready to quarrel his calling:1 The Messias when he comes &c. But this man, whence he is, we know not. Joh. 9.29. God spake by Moses, but whence this man comes; We know not. And when the Blind man seemed but to speak favorably in this point; certainly, no man could do such and such thing•, unless God had sent him, They could not bear it. Joh. 9.33, 34.
Again that he had no sufficiency in any seeming appearance for such and so weighty employment: and therefore they vilified his person, and looked at his speeches as so many vain glorious expressions, which had neither truth not sufficiency to maintain. And therefore when our Saviour told them, he would give his flesh for the sins of his Elect, They murmur immediately, as though this were a deceit. How can this man give us his Flesh &c.