A44344:963
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.
2. This Giving, is not the Act of Believing, by which the Soul is carried by the Power of God •nto Christ; but the Scripture is pregnant, and the Dispute undeniable, John, 6.37. All that the Father hath given me, come unto me: and those that come unto me, I will in no wise cast away. Coming, we know, is Believing, John, 6.35. I am the Bread of Eternal Life, he that cometh to me, shall never hunger. If it be demanded; what is that Coming? He answers in the words immediately following; He that believeth in me, shall never thirst. Coming then being Believing, our Saviour making this Giving of God the Father to go before it, without which, the Soul will never come, or believe, it cannot be it.
2. This Giving, is not the Act of Beleeving, by which the Soul is carried by the Power of God •nto Christ; but the Scrip•ure is pregnant, and the Dispute undeniable, John, 6.37. All that the Father hath given me, come unto me: and those that come unto me, I will in no wise cast away. Coming, we know, is Beleeving, John, 6.35. I am the Bread of Eternal Life, he that cometh to me, shall never hunger. If it be demanded; what is that Coming? He answers in the words immediately following; He that beleeveth in me, shall never thirst. Coming then being Beleeving, our Savior making this Giving of God the Father to go before it, without which, the Soul wil never come, or beleeve, it cannot be it.
3. This Giving, is the Work of the Father upon the Soul, in Vocation, which goes before the Infusion of Faith, makes way for the working of Faith by Christ, and receiving it from him; and which being there, the soul never fails to believe and come: for that is the force of our Saviours Dispute,