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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.
The like Phrase we have again repeated in the last verse of this Chapter, with which our Saviour ends his Prayer, leaving that, as the last farewell, in which such spiritual god things, and those glorious Privileges, that ever were promised, or could be expected or received, were summed up, even the marrow of all those loving kindnesses the Lord lets out unto his People; the taste and relish whereof, if it were kept upon the Soul, it would keep a satisfying, and ravishing content upon the heart of a Christian in all Conditions; yea, carries him ⟨p. 158⟩beyond all the fullness of Comforts, that all created Nature can afford, whether in Earth, or Heaven, being something above Heaven it self, and all the beauties of all created Excellencies, which the place can afford.
The like Phrase we have again repeated in the last verse of this Chapter, with which our Savior ends his Prayer, leaving that, as the last farewel, in which such spiritual god things, and those glorious Priviledges, that ever were promised, or could be expected or received, were summed up, even the marrow of al those loving kindnesses the Lord lets out unto his People; the tast and rellish whereof, if it were kept upon the Soul, it would keep a satisfing, and ravishing content upon the heart of a Christian in al Conditions; yea, carries him ⟨p. 158⟩beyond al the fulness of Comforts, that al created Nature can afford, whether in Earth, or Heaven, being somthing above Heaven it self, and al the beauties of all created Excellencies, which the place can afford.
We shall open Two things: 1. Wherein the Love of the Father to the Saints, shows it self. 2. That it is like to that, wherewith he loved his Son.
We shal open Two things: 1. Wherein the Love of the Father to the Saints, shews it self. 2. That it is like to that, wherewith he loved his Son.