A44344:540
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.
For the opening, do three things.
1. Recall what this oneness is. 2. How this oneness and glorious Grace differ each from other, or may be rightly discerned in their several considerations. 3. The Reasons of the point, upon what grounds it may rightly be gathered and concluded: to be one with the Father and the Son is the END, and so of greater excellency, than all the glorious Grace the Saints do partake of.
1. Recal what this oneness is. 2. How this oneness and glorious Grace differ each from other, or may be rightly discerned in their several considerations. 3. The Reasons of the point, upon what grounds it may rightly be gathered and concluded: to be one with the Father and the Son is the END, and so of greater excellency, than al the glorious Grace the Saints do partake of.
1. This unity, or oneness, is not the unity of affection, which the faithful, as members of the same body ought to maintain in their hearts, and consciences, and convers; As being of one heart and mind; Keeping the unity of the faith in the bond of peace.