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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.
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.
As wise Merchants victual their ships for the longest time: our Saviour victuals, even for a Voyage of eternity; for life, for death, for Grace, for Glory; for a Momentany passage of time in this world, and for eternity in another: he lays out for their present needs; but Oh how great is that goodness thou hast laid up for them that fear thee? like Joseph, provide for the seven years Famine, lays in provision of prayer for their everlasting supply. The Saints may find even refreshing baits by this prayer of our Saviour, in their most famishing distresses, feast their hearts with it. Hence it is, the Lord Christ is said, Hebr. 7.25. To be able to save them to the utmost that come to God by him, that is, by the virtue of his eternal intercession, of which this prayer is one part. This was signified by those two types, The Pillar of fire, and the Pillar of cloud, which went before the Israelites in their travails. Its said, The Lord went before them in a Pillar. Exord. 13.21, 22. He took not away the Pillar of Cloud by day, and the Pillar of Fire by night, from before his people, until he brought them into the promised Land. Thus the Lord Jesus leads his people into the way everlasting, and withdraws not the power of his prayer, and presence, and provision of all mercies, until he bring them to himself.
As wise Merchants victual their shipps for the longest time: our Savior victuals, even for a Voyage of eternity; for life, for death, for Grace, for Glory; for a Momentany passage of time in this world, and for eternity in another: he laies out for their present needs; but Oh how great is that goodness thou hast laid up for them that feare thee? like Joseph, provide for the seven years Famin, laies in provision of prayer for their everlasting supply. The Saints may find even refreshing baits by this prayer of our Savior, in their most famishing distresses, feast their hearts with it. Hence it is, the Lord Christ is said,