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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
Verse continued 23 › God the Father loveth the Faithful, as he loveth Jesus Christ.
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.
God the Father loveth the Faithful, as he loveth Jesus Christ.
He loves the Saints, as he doth our Saviour, he loveth his adopted Sons, as he doth his natural Son, the members as the Head.
He loves the Saints, as he doth our Savior, he loveth his adopted Sons, as he doth his natural Son, the members as the Head.
I confess judicious Calvin •asts another Construction upon the word; and therefore interprets the Particle, which carries a similitude with it, causally, thus; That thou lovest them, because thou lovest me. But since this Translation which we read, carries the proper signification of the Word with it; and since that which he intends, is not denied, but included in it; I therefore choose rather to follow the Native, and Natural signification of the word, when there is no constraining Argument to the contrary, nor any inconvenience doth accrue thereby, to the Context and Scope of the place. Only attend this, that ye may not mistake the mind of our Saviour, nor the meaning: It is but AS, for the quality, and likeness of this Love; not so much, as that it should be equal for the quantity, and greatness of that Love, which was extended to our Saviour, and to his Saints and Children: For that were to derogate from the Wisdom and Goodness of the Father, from the Honour, and Excellency of our Saviour, and to lift up both the Persons and Privileges of the Faithful, more than were meet and due.
I confess judicious Calvin •asts another Construction upon the word; and therefore interprets the Particle, which carries a similitude with it, causally, thus; That thou lovest them, because thou lovest me. But since this Translation which we read, carries the proper signification of the Word with it; and since that which he intends, is not denied, but included in it; I therefore chuse rather to follow the Native, and Natural signification of the word, when there is no constraining Argument to the contrary, nor any inconvenience doth accrew thereby, to the Context and Scope of the place. Only attend this, that ye may not mistake the mind of our Savior, nor the meaning: It is but AS, for the quality, and likeness of this Love; not so much, as that it should be equal for the quantity, and greatness of that Love, which was extended to our Savior, and to his Saints and Children: For that were to derogate from the Wisdom and Goodness of the Father, from the Honor, and Excellency of our Savior, and to lift up both the Persons and Priviledges of the Faithful, more than were meet and due.