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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.
Now the end of all that glory and fullness of all that spiritual good he prays for, for them, and they should partake of, according to his prayer. The end of all is, that the Name of Christ (Christ as he is made known in his word and Offices and the execution of the great work of Redemption) may be made glorious in you; He from the Father giving all to you. You also may be glorified, not in your selves, but in your reference and Oneness towards Christ, in receiving and returning all to the Father by him. And therefore those words are added, according to the Grace of God, and our Lord Jesus ⟨p. 102⟩Christ: you so in him, as through him in God. God through Grace in Christ gives himself and Christ to you: you also through Grace give up your selves to Christ, and through him to God.
Now the end of al that glory and fulness of al that spiritual good he prayes for, for them, and they should partake of, according to his prayer. The end of all is, that the Name of Christ (Christ as he is made known in his word and Offices and the execution of the great work of Redemption) may be made glorious in you; He from the Father giving al to you. You also may be glorified, not in your selves, but in your reference and Oneness towards Christ, in receiving and returning al to the Father by him. And therefore those words are added, according to the Grace of God, and our Lord Jesus ⟨p. 102⟩Christ: you so in him, as through him in God. God through Grace in Christ gives himself and Christ to you: you also through Grace give up your selves to Christ, and through him to God.
For the opening, do three things.