A44344:965
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.
The Lord Christ is to be considered, as God-Man, assuming our Nature,1 when by voluntary Dispensation he put himself into the place o• Mediator, becomes our Surety, & undertakes the great Work of our Redemption; and so, as himself, peaks, is less than the Father, John, 14.28. The Father is greater than I. And therefore in the transacting of this great Work, by mutual agreement, may truly be said to have us given to him, not to give us to himself. And this the Father doth on this manner:
The Lord Christ is to be considered, as God-Man, assuming our Nature,1 when by voluntary Dispensation he put himself into the place o• Mediator, becomes our Surety, & undertakes the great Work of our Redemption; and so, as himself, peaks, is less than the Father, John, 14.28. The Father is greater than I. And therfore in the transacting of this great Work, by mutual agreement, may truly be said to have us given to him, not to give us to himself. And this the Father doth on this manner: