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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.
Behold the party I will have redeemed, and the Lord takes him as his Charge, and provides for him, both to bring him to himself, and so to Life and Salvation, which he hath purchased, and possesseth, and can communicate. The Soul as yet consents not, nor hath the powerful impression of Gods Grace come home to the heart: God gives the Soul, the Soul doth not yet give up it self, but God giving to Christ, as his charge put, and passing under his care; He undertakes to get the good will of the Soul, and to bring it to himself, and through himself to Life and Glory.
Behold the party I wil have redeemed, and the Lord takes him as his Charge, and provides for him, both to bring him to himself, and so to Life and Salvation, which he hath purchased, and possesseth, and can communicate. The Soul as yet consents not, nor hath the powerful impression of Gods Grace come home to the heart: God gives the Soul, the Soul doth not yet give up it self, but God giving to Christ, as his charge put, and passing under his care; He undertakes to get the good wil of the Soul, and to bring it to himself, and through himself to Life and Glory.
3. When the Father hath thus delivered the Soul unto the care of Christ; he then gives Christ to the Soul, reveals the Lord Jesus as the Surety and Saviour, that hath covenanted with the Father, and hath purchased all from the Father for him; so that there is nothing that can stand betwixt Mercy and him.
3. When the Father hath thus delivered the Soul unto the care of Christ; he then gives Christ to the Soul, reveals the Lord Jesus as the Surety and Savior, that hath covenanted with the Father, and hath purchased al from the Father for him; so that there is nothing that can stand betwixt Mercy and him.