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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.
3. There is a Love of Benevolence. It's the Nature of Love to study the good of the thing beloved. This the Father doth also after an unconceivable manner. The study, and bent of his infinite Understanding, is now to plot for the Honour, and to lift up the Glory of his Son far beyond all praises. So that more than the Father gave, could not be enjoyed, no more could be added, no more could be desired by our Saviour, when he would make his request in that behalf. Hither the Lord Christ repairs, and here he takes up his stand, as though no more could be conceived, or communicated, John, 17.5. And now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self, with the glory I had with thee before the ⟨p. 149⟩World was: q.d. If he was put to his choice, to his desire, or God the Father to his free giving, he could wish no other, nor no more glory, but that which he had with him from Eternity.
3. There is a Love of Benevolence. It's the Nature of Love to study the good of the thing beloved. This the Father doth also after an unconceivable manner. The study, and bent of his infinite Understanding, is now to plot for the Honor, and to lift up the Glory of his Son far beyond al praises. So that more than the Father gave, could not be enjoyed, no more could be added, no more could be desired by our Savior, when he would make his request in that behalf. Hither the Lord Christ repairs, and here he takes up his stand, as though no more could be conceived, or communicated, John, 17.5. And now, O Father, glorifie me with thine own self, with the glory I had with thee before the ⟨p. 149⟩World was: q.d. If he was put to his choyce, to his desire, or God the Father to his free giving, he could wish no other, nor no more glory, but that which he had with him from Eternity.