A44344:526
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.
The end why the Saints receive all glorious Grace from our Saviour Christ, is this,1 that they may be one, as the Father and Son are one with themselves.
The end why the Saints receive all glorious Grace from our Savior Christ, is this,1 that they may be one, as the Father and Son are one with themselves.
- 1Doct.
This is a truth not included, or that which may by way of consequence be collected, or probably inferred out of the text: But that which is clearly intended, as the chief scope of our Saviour, yea fully and plainly expressed in the words, beyond all exception or disputation, and that which carries such evidence out of the phrase of speech, that unless a man will cast away the rule and dictate of right reason, he can in no wise reject or refuse.
This is a truth not included, or that which may by way of consequence be collected, or probably inferred out of the text: But that which is clearely intended, as the chief scope of our Savior, yea fully and plainly expressed in the words, beyond all exception or disputation, and that which carries such evidence out of the phrase of speech, that unless a man wil cast away the rule and dictate of right reason, he can in no wise reject or refuse.
Ask but the Question, why did our Saviour Christ receive all glorious Grace into his Human Nature from God the Father?