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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.
The point it self we spake unto on verse, 21. So much of the first end.
The second End is this.
Our Saviour prays that they might be perfect in one, §IIthat so the world also might know, that the Father hath loved them, as he loved him. This is for the honour and excellency of believers in the acknowledgement of the world. That howsoever, while they are wildering here in this vale of tears, they become the scorn of the wicked, the scrapings of men, as the Apostle hath it, and the Off-scouring of the world in the misguided apprehension of the wicked of the world, who know not how to judg aright of things and persons, and therefore account them Out-casts of Heaven and Earth; yet our Saviour prays, that they may proceed on to that perfection of Oneness with the Father and himself, unto which one day they shall attain in Heaven. That the world may be constrained to see and say, that indeed they are Gods precious ones, to whom his Soul is exceedingly endeared in surpassing love, even like unto that, wherewith he hath loved the Lord Jesus his only Son. This our Saviour Christ prays for, as a means to this end, and therefore it will undoubtedly attain it.
Our Savior prayes that they might be perfect in one, §IIthat so the world also might know, that the Father hath loved them, as he loved him. This is for the honor and excellency of beleevers in the acknowledgment of the world. That howsoever, while they are wildering here in this vale of teares, they become the scorn of the wicked, the scrapings of men, as the Apostle hath it, and the Off-scouring of the world in the misguided apprehension of the wicked of the world, who know not how to judg aright of things and persons, and therefore account them Out-casts of Heaven and Earth; yet our Savior prayes, that they may proceed on to that perfection of Oneness with the Father and himself, unto which one day they shal attain in Heaven. That the world may be constrained to see and say, that indeed they are Gods precious ones, to whom his Soul is exceedingly indeared in surpassing love, even like unto that, wherewith he hath loved the Lord Jesus his only Son. This our Savior Christ prayes for, as a means to this end, and therefore it wil undoubtedly attain it.