A44344:957
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.
As though our Saviour should have said: It is not the condition of thine enemies, I now present before thee, nor the cause of Strangers, (righteous Father) that I desire to recommend to thy Majesty, but it is for Thine own, whom thou hast Given, and over whose Good thou hast Given me Charge. For them and for their good it is, that I pray, and therefore I cannot but speed for both.
As though our Savior should have said: It is not the condition of thine enemies, I now present before thee, nor the cause of Strangers, (righteous Father) that I desire to recommend to thy Majesty, but it is for Thine own, whom thou hast Given, and over whose Good thou hast Given me Charge. For them and for their good it is, that I pray, and therefore I cannot but speed for both.
For the Explication of the Doctrine, two Questions are to be considered; and the meaning of that Phrase opened, and then the Truth will be evident. 1. What this giving is? 2. How God the Father is said to give?
For the Explication of the Doctrine, two Questions are to be considered; and the meaning of that Phrase opened, and then the Truth wil be evident. 1. What this giving is? 2. How God the Father is said to give?
To the First, I answer three Things: All which being distinctly attended, will open the Nature of this Work, and make it easy to the Understanding of the meanest.
To the First, I answer three Things: All which being distinctly attended, wil open the Nature of this Work, and make it easie to the Understanding of the meanest.