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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
That the world may know thou hast loved them, as thou lovest me.
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.
That the world may know thou hast loved them, as thou lovest me.
1. That God loves Christ. 2. That he loves believers and. That he loves them, as he loves Christ; We have spoken to all those particulars formerly: and because they were all of special consideration, and carried choice, both comfort and profit with them, we stayed the longer upon them.
1. That God loves Christ. 2. That he loves beleevers and. That he loves them, as he loves Christ; We have spoken to al those particulars formerly: and because they were al of special consideration, and carried choice, both comfort and profit with them, we •taied the longer upon them.
There is one point yet remaining, wherein the scope and end of our Saviours prayer is expressed, and indeed directly intended in the words.
There is one point yet remaining, wherein the scope and end of our Saviors prayer is expressed, and indeed directly intended in the words.
There is a double end here mentioned by our Saviour, why he so earnestly and so importunately pursues the request at the hands of his Father in so many several Circumstances. That they might be one as the Father and he was one: The means how this comes to be attained, and order how dispensed: I in them, and thou in me. The perfection which was aimed at, That they might be perfect in one. Here lastly we have a double end;