A44344:521
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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4. We must wait Gods leisure, and stay his time for the bestowing of his favours. Beggars must not be Choosers; And nothing more free than gift: And therefore he that will challenge it, at his time, and according to his will, makes it a Debt, and not a Gift.
4. We must wait Gods leasure, and stay his time for the bestowing of his favors. Beggers must not be Chusers; And nothing more free than gift: And therefore he that will challenge it, at his time, and according to his wil, makes it a Debt, and not a Gift.
That they may be one, as we are one.
Here is the third thing, that was especially intended in the verse.
1. We heard that Christ had all glorious Grace given him. 2. That he gives all that glorious Grace unto his Saints.