A44344:966
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:
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1. The Father being the Party, properly, and directly offended, lets in his heavy displeasure into the heart of the sinner, and forceth him to feel the bitterness of his sin, in that unsufferable, and unavoidable manner, that takes off, and eats out all the former seeming sweetness the soul hath found therein: and by the almighty, and unresistable power of his blessed Spirit, divorceth him from the embracings of those base Lusts, and plucks him by his almighty hand, from under the power of those prevailing distempers, that have taken place, that so the soul may be for another; which, while it was wedded to its former Corruptions, and under the Sovereignty, and Authority thereof, it was utterly impossible, as being against the Principles of Reason, and the Nature of Grace, and the Covenant of Truth, which the Lord hath left in his Word.