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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.
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;
There is a double end here mentioned by our Savior, 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;
1. Touching the honour of our Saviour, that it might be manifested and magnified even in the hearts, and by the mouths of the wicked, even the worst of men, that will they, nil they, they should be forced to see it, and forced also to confess it, that the Lord Jesus was the Messiah of the world, appointed by the Father before all ⟨p. 181⟩worlds, foretold by Prophets, exhibited and sent in the fullness of time by God the Father; and he that hath accomplished that great work of our redemption, and that unto the full. That the ignorant, who never knew him, the stubborn and rebellious amongst whom he lived, and preached, yet would not receive him, yea the flinty hearted Jews, that scorned and despised the meanness of his person and the power of his dispensation; Al these at last should be constrained to acknowledge that he is the true and only Messiah, set a part and sent to that work. This is the Son of God, says the Heathen, of whom we have heard, but never laboured to know him. This is the Son of God, says the profane, whom we in his word have opposed, and hated in his servants. This is the Son of God, sent to save us, and we have blasphemed his name, and flame, and crucified his person, despised his government says the Jew. See the lively expression of this,