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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.
Two things we are to attend in this verse.
Two things we are to attend in this v•rse.
1. The ORDER and several Degrees, by which this Unity & Oneness is accomplished, and these are here now expressed. 1. The Father is in Christ. 2. Christ is in them; and that which is implied is, that they are one in them. 2. We have the several ENDS, aimed at in this proceeding of the Lord, and those are three. 1. That they may be perfected in one. 2. That the world may know that thou hast sent me. 3. That they may know thou hast loved them, as thou lovest me.
1. The ORDER and several Degrees, by which this Ʋnity & Oneness is accomplished, and these are here now expressed. 1. The Father is in Christ. 2. Christ is in them; and that which is implied is, that they are one in them. 2. We have the several ENDS, aimed at in this proceeding of the Lord, and those are three. 1. That they may be perfected in one. 2. That the world may know that thou hast sent me. 3. That they may know thou hast loved them, as thou lovest me.
1. As touching The ORDER, our Saviour doth not mention and propound it as it is in Nature, but so as it may be best apprehended by us: looks not at things, as they are, but as they appear to us, and may most familiarly, and easily be conceived by us: and so to lead us by the hand, as it were, to that fountain and first rise of all, and so to the highest step and stair in Heaven which will point at eternity. The Father is in Christ, Christ in the faithful, and so they come to be perfect in one.
1. As touching The ORDER, our Savior doth not mention and propound it as it is in Nature, but so as it may be best apprehended by us: looks not at things, as they are, but as they appeare to us, and may most familiarly, and easily be conceived by us: and so to lead us by the hand, as it were, to that fountain and first rise of all, and so to the highest step and staire in Heaven which will point at eternity. The Father is in Christ, Christ in the faithful, and so they come to be perfect in one.