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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.
3. Love of Benevolence, God wisheth well unto the Faithful, and studies to advance them and their happiness, with the advancing of Christ, 2 Thes. 1.12. That the Name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the Grace of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. Love of Benevolence, God wisheth wel unto the Faithful, and studies to advance them and their happiness, with the advancing of Christ, 2 Thes. 1.12. That the Name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the Grace of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Quest. Why? you will say, Is there any Name higher than the Name of Christ? or Glory due to any beyond, and after Christ? Why is it added, That Christ may be glorified, and you in him?
Quest. Why? you wil say, Is there any Name higher than the Name of Christ? or Glory due to any beyond, and after Christ? Why is it added, That Christ may be glorified, and you in him?
Answ. The meaning may thus be conceived: The Apostle having prayed in the fore-going verse, That God would count them worthy of their Calling, worthy of the Glory unto which they were called, and so fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, that is, fully bestow all that Spiritual good, which is the full purpose of his good pleasure he intended to them, and that he would bring the Work of Faith to perfection by his mighty Power. Now the end of all that glory and fullness, of all that Spiritual good he prays for, and they should partake by virtue of his Prayer, is, That the Name of Christ, that is, Christ as he is made known in the Gospel, in his Offices, and Execution of the great Work of Redemption, may be made glorious in you, who from the Father, hath given all to you: you also may be glorified, not in your selves, but in your reference, and oneness with Christ. As God was made glorious in receiving all; so also in returning all to the Father by him: And therefore it's added, According to the Grace of God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. God the Father, through Grace in Christ, gives himself, and Christ to you, so they are glorified in you receiving; you also through Grace, give up your selves to Christ, and through him to God, and return all to God in Christ.