A44344:414
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.
In this we have the means set forth unto us, by which they should be enabled to attain the end, and our Saviour plainly expresseth himself, That he hath given them his glory, which he hath himself received, that they might attain this so great a privilege.
In this we have the means set forth unto us, by which they should be inabled to attain the end, and our Savior plainly expresseth himself, That he hath given them his glory, which he hath himself received, that they might attain this so great a priviledg.
Here we have three things to be attended.
1. What it is our Saviour hath received. 2. What it is he doth communicate. 3. The end why.
1. What it is our Savior hath received. 2. What it is he doth communicate. 3. The end why.
1. Touching the former of these; two words are to be opened, that we may understand the sense of the Spirit, and the several truths therein contained.