A44344:970
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.
And here again by the way, ye may observe, That this Giving, cannot be the Act of Electing: for that is an eminent Act, and remains in Gods Breast and Bosom, and goes not out: This is called a Transient Act, is an Act which passeth upon the Creature.
That is without respect and consideration of Mans being, much less the being of Sin, as ye have fully heard.
But this supposeth a man in the World, that is, under the power of the Vanity thereof, if he must be given out of the World.
2. God the Father doth actually deliver up the Soul into the hand of Jesus, commends it to his keeping, to rule him in the Kingdom of Grace, while here he remains in this World, and to bring him to Glory hereafter. He gives the Soul, and our Saviour takes it, and undertakes for it, as his Charge, according to the terms of the Covenant, and Agreement made between the Father and him.
2. God the Father doth actually deliver up the Soul into the hand of Jesus, commends it to his keeping, to rule him in the Kingdom of Grace, while here he remains in this World, and to bring him to Glory hereafter. He gives the Soul, and our Savior takes it, and undertakes for it, as his Charge, according to the terms of the Covenant, and Agreement made between the Father and him.