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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.
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, Rev. 6.13. This, I say, will certainly come to pass, for our Saviour hath prayed for it, yea pursued it with re-doubled desires, propounded in the 21. Verse, repeated in verse, 23. And he is always heard in what he begged.
1. Touching the honor of our Savior, that it might be manifested and magnified even in the hearts, and by the mouths of the wicked, even the worst of men, that wil they, nil they, they should be forced to see it, and forced also to confess it, that the Lord Jesus was the Messias of the world, appointed by the Father before al ⟨p. 181⟩worlds, foretold by Prophets, exhibited and sent in the fulness of time by God the Father; and he that hath accomplished that great work of our redemption, and that unto the ful. 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 acknowledg that he is the true and only Messias, set a part and sent to that work. This is the Son of God, saies the Heathen, of whom we have heard, but never laboured to know him. This is the Son of God, saies the prophane, 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 saies the Jew. See the lively expression of this,