A44344:931
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.
See here in the words of the Text, the enlarged tenderness of the heart of the Lord Jesus, he doth not content himself to look to his disciples and so believers, while they were but in the shell, Babes in Christianity; nor satisfies himself, that he hath purchased and bestowed the same glorious Grace upon them, which he hath received from his Father. Nor yet doth he count it enough that he hath pressed the Father with such unceasing importunity to entreat, that they might be kept in that Oneness of relation to the Father and the Son, as they are one with another, and one in another, which notwithstanding in reason might have been conceived to have been a large provision, a goodly portion and inheritance, even for the choicest of Gods servants, to be so left by God the Father and the Lord Jesus with so fair an estate; that in reason they might have been able to maintain themselves well, and not only made a shift to live Christianly, but honourably, and with much content, since the Lord had left them wherewithal, and aforehand in the world, so fully stocked and stored:
See here in the words of the Text, the inlarged tenderness of the heart of the Lord Jesus, he doth not content himself to look to his disciples and so beleevers, while they were but in the shel, Babes in Christianity; nor satisfies himself, that he hath purchased and bestowed the same glorious Grace upon them, which he hath received from his Father. Nor yet doth he count it enough that he hath pressed the Father with such uncessant importunity to intreate, that they might be kept in that Oneness of relation to the Father and the Son, as they are one with another, and one in another, which notwithstanding in reason might have been conceived to have been a large provision, a goodly portion and inheritance, even for the choicest of Gods servants, to be so left by God the Father and the Lord Jesus with so faire an estate; that in reason they might have been able to maintain themselves wel, and not only made a shift to live Christianly, but honorably, and with much content, since the Lord had left them wherewithal, and aforehand in the world, so fully stocked and stored:
But alas, this is little in the Eye of the Lord Christ, do we but consider the endless compassions, which he extends towards such: He lays in with God the Father, for their welfare in another world, stores up for eternity in their behalf. Father I will they be, where I am. He will not forsake them, before he see them well arrived and in safety: therefore doth not ascend to Heaven, and leave them to the wide world, to sink, or swim, and shift for themselves. No, he hath laid in provision of