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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
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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. Joh. 6.41, 52. Is not this Jesus the Son of Joseph, whose Father and Mother we know? verse, 42. How is it that he saith, I came down from Heaven?
Again that he had no sufficiency in any seeming appearance for such and so weighty imployment: 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 Savior told them, he would give his flesh for the sins of his Elect, They murmur immediately, as though this were a deceipt. How can this man give us his Flesh &c. Joh. 6.41, 52. Is not this Jesus the Son of Joseph, whose Father and Mother we know? verse, 42. How is it that he saith, I came down from Heaven?
Lastly, for the full recovery, there the Sons of men are so fickle and slippery, that they are ready to step aside, and at least full of question and therefore his own, after he was condemned, Crucified and Buried, Luk. 24.21. They began to stagger in their own thoughts. We had thought in had be•n he, that should have delivered &c. And no• behold this is the third day. Now this our Saviour wisheth; that they might be brought to the acknowledgement of the light of his commission, the po•e• of his dispensation, the certain and through fulfilling of all that was committed to him, and that he undertook.