A44344:964
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.
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, John, 6.36. where he gives the reason, why many did not believe. Ye also have seen me, and believe not; What might be the cause thereof? since their Abilities were as great, and their Excellencies as many, which they might have improved to that purpose, before many other. Our Saviour sets down the immediate root and rise of this distinction, and separation: Those that the Father hath given me, those will come, shall beleeve• where that is not, coming will not be. The manner of this Dispensation, we shall speak to in the next Question; and that is,
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 beleeve and come: for that is the force of our Saviors Dispute, John, 6.36. where he gives the reason, why many did not beleeve. Ye also have seen me, and bel•eve not; What might be the cause thereof? since their Abilities were as great, and their Excellencies as many, which they might have improved to that purpose, before many other. Our Savior sets down the immediate root and rise of this distinction, and separation: Those that the Father hath given me, those will come, shall beleeve• where that is not, coming wil not be. The manner of this Dispensation, we shal speak to in the next Question; and that is,
How in God the Father said to give us to Christ, 1