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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
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.
These two the Apostle joins together also in his prayer. 2. Thess. 1.11, 12. Wherefore we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, And fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you: that is the first, that Christ may be acknowledged, as he that hath been sent for that work, and hath done it. Secondly, That ye might be glorified in him: according to the Grace of God, at a•d •u• Lord Jesus Christ.
These two the Apostle joynes together also in his prayer. 2. Thess. 1.11, 12. Wherefore we pray alwaies for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, And fulfil al the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you: that is the first, that Christ may be acknowledged, as he that hath been sent for that work, and hath done it. Secondly, That ye might be glorified in him: according to the Grace of God, at a•d •u• Lord Jesus Christ.
Next under the Advancement of his own Name, the Lord provides, and the Apostle prays for the Advancement of his Servants. 'Matth. 13.41.43. when the Lord shall gather out of his Church, whatever doth offend, whatever persons that are wicked, and whatever things, even amongst the godly, that offend: Then shall the righteous s•ine as the Sun, in the Kingdom of my Father. They have been here under hatches, cooped, up in Dugns, there they shall be in their Kingdom, and that in the Kingdom of their Father. Here they lie among the ports, all dined ecoed with the shame and disgrace, that hath been cast upon them, as the scum of the world, and the scorn of Heaven and Earth. This is Zion whom to Man regarded. There they shall shine, and that as the Sun, which every man will see, because he cannot look of the light of it, and will be dazzled with the beauty of it. This shall be doe to the man, whom God hath now, and will then honour. They shall sit with the Lord Jesus in his throne,