A44344:932
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.
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 ⟨p. 198⟩prayer answerable to all their occasions, their changes, and necessities, in life, in death, after Death. In life, Lead them: keep them in their Graves, raise them out of their Graves, bring them to glory, and preserve them in glory for ever: He will not have his glory, but they must see it, nay his glory will not satisfy, unless he may see them.
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 laies 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 wil not forsake them, before he see them wel 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 ⟨p. 198⟩prayer answerable to al their occasions, their changes, and necessities, in life, in death, after Death. In life, Lead them: keep them in their Graves, raise them out of their Graves, bring them to glory, and preserve them in glory for ever: He wil not have his glory, but they must see it, nay his glory wil not satisfie, unless he may see them.
If our Saviour pray for this their being with him; then prays he for and provides and also succeeds all means to attain this.
If our Savior pray for this their being with him; then prayes he for and provids and also succeeds al means to attain this.