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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.
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.
Or else for all the Faithful, that ever did, or for the future should believe in him unto the end of the World, whose case he commends from Verse 20. and the things ⟨p. 195⟩he begs, are partly such which might concern their Spiritual good in an especial manner in this Life; and because that was the Root and Treasury of all the rest of their good things, in which they were contained, and from whence they might be received, he propounds and pursues with much instancy of desire, That they might be one, as the Father and Son were one. Partly such as did concern their everlasting welfare in the world to come; and this our Saviour (as though he would carry them to Heaven, being presently to ascend himself) seeks to the Father for, here in the closure of his Prayer: that so nothing might be wanting, that either they did need, or could desire; but that they might be fully furnished with a sufficiency of supply, for whatsoever concerned either Grace or Glory; the present comfort of this, or the happiness of a better life.