A44344:924
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.
Verse 24. Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me, be with me, where I am; that they may behold my Glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the Foundation of the World.
Verse 24. Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me, be with me, where I am; that they may behold my Glory, which thou hast given me: for thou loved'st me before the Foundation of the World.
IN this Prayer of our Saviour, two things were especially attended. 1. He prayeth for himself, to verse 6. 2. The for his Children, from thence to the end. And that, Either especially for his Apostles, because the greatness of the Work now under their hand, their pressures and difficulties that would necessarily attend them therein, the large measure of Grace and Abilities that might suit them to so weighty and Spiritual employment, together with the need of more than an ordinary presence and assistance of the Lord, without which, they would not only be unfitted for a business of that worth, but wholly discouraged in it. Therefore the Lord Jesus lays in for a larger measure of Spiritual supply and relief for them in the first place, and here he is marvellous importunate, to verse 20.
IN this Prayer of our Savior, two things were especially attended. 1. He prayeth for himself, to verse 6. 2. The for his Children, from thence to the end. And that, Either especially for his Apostles, because the greatness of the Work now under their hand, their pressures and difficulties that would necessarily attend them therein, the large measure of Grace and Abilities that might suit them to so weighty and Spiritual employment, together with the need of more than an ordinary presence and assistance of the Lord, without which, they would not only be unfitted for a business of that worth, but wholly discouraged in it. Therefore the Lord Jesus laies in for a larger measure of Spiritual supply and relief for them in the first place, and here he is marvelous importunate, to verse 20.