A44344:973
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. 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.
The Expression of Calvin, is pat and pleasant. God the Father causeth the Soul to pass into the Care and Custody of the Lord Jesus, leaves him in the power and possession of his Son Jesus, as the Second Adam, the Head of the Covenant of Grace, that he may see him redeemed.
As the First Adam neglected the Covenant, and destroyed himself, and his Posterity: There was a Parley and Consultation held between the Father and the Lord ⟨p. 210⟩Jesus, touching the Salvation of his Elect, and the Agreement fully transacted and passed. But now it comes to be put into Execution, and he gives them into the hand of Christ: The Soul comes into Christs presence, and Christ comes to speech with it.
As the First Adam neglected the Covenant, and destroyed himself, and his Posterity: There was a Parly and Consultation held between the Father and the Lord