A44344:959
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.
REASON
It's usually joined with Election, and made distinct therefrom. John, 17.6. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me. Verse 9. I pray not for the World, but for them, that thou hast given me, for they are thine. Where the former of these Phrases and Expressions, imply Election, the other a distinct and differing thing therefrom. They are God the Fathers by Election; made Christs by Gift and Donation: Yea, the one is used by out Saviour, as a Reason and Ground of the other; I have prayed for those, that thou hast given me; for they are thine; properly so termed. Beside, the very Nature of the Phrase, and the manner of the Speech, will not easily bear such a converting, being harsh to the ear, and hardly suitable to sense, to be elected to Christ, as ⟨p. 207⟩we say, to be given to Christ; which if giving were electing properly, might truly be so expressed; which neither the Nature of the thing, nor the Construction of the words, will easily admit.
It's usually joyned with Election, and made distinct therefrom. John, 17.6. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me. Verse 9. I pray not for the World, but for them, that thou hast given me, for they are thine. Where the former of these Phrases and Expressions, imply Election, the other a dis•inct and differing thing therefrom. They are God the Fathers by Election; made Christs by Gift and Donation: Yea, the one is used by out Savior, as a Reason and Ground of the other; I have prayed for those, that thou hast given me; for they are thine; properly so termed. Beside, the very Nature of the Phrase, and the manner of the Speech, wil not easily bear such a converting, being harsh to the ear, and hardly suitable to sense, to be elected to Christ, as