A44344:418
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.
1. What is meant by Glory. 2. In what regard our Saviour may be said to receive, ⟨p. 78⟩it, and how God the Father gave it him.
1. What is meant by Glory. 2. In what regard our Savior may be said to receive, ⟨p. 78⟩it, and how God the Father gave it him.
1. GLORY Sometimes ••gnifies that unconceivable excellency of all that incomprehensible worth and infinite goodness, that is in the Lord, which is Gods peculiar, and Prerogative Royal, as only appertaining to him, who is the first cause and the last end: and therefore as he is the author of all, because they come from him, so he is the good of all, because all •end to him.
1. GLORY Somtimes ••gnifies that unconceiveable excellency of al that incomprehensible worth and infinite goodness, that is in the Lord, which is Gods peculiar, and Prerogative Royal, as onely appertaining to him, who is the first cause and the last end: and therefore as he is the author of all, because they come from him, so he is the good of al, because al •end to him.
The shine and lus••e of all those glorious Attributes of the Lord meeting together in that infinite fullness, as they be in him, like the beauty of so many thousand Suns in the Firmament, that is called, the GLORY of GOD, with which the Eyes of blessed Angels are dazzled, as not able to behold it, and therefore cover their faces.