A44344:536
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.
I take it to be the meaning of that place very difficult, and the expression very spiritual and of a high strain. 2 Thess. 1.12. That the Name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the Grace of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why, you would say, Is there any Name higher than the Name of Christ, or glory due to any beyond or after Christ? why is it added, that Christ should be glorified and you in him?
For Answer, open the words a little, as we pass for the present, we shall speak more fully and largely, when we shall come to them again, that which may suffice for the while is this. The Apostle having prayed in the foregoing verse, That God would count them worthy of their calling, i. e. Worthy of the glory, Unto which they were called and so fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness i.e. fully bestow all that spiritual good, which in the full purpose of his good pleasure he intended to them, and that he would bring the work of Faith to perfection by his mighty power.
For Answer, open the words a little, as we pass for the present, we shall speak more fully and largely, when we shall come to them again, that which may suffice for the while is this. The Apostle having prayed in the foregoing verse, That God would count them worthy of their calling, i. e. Worthy of the glory, Ʋnto which they were called and so fulfil al the good pleasure of his goodness i.e. fully bestow al that spiritual good, which in the ful purpose of his good pleasure he intended to them, and that he would bring the work of Faith to perfection by his mighty power.