A44344:979
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.
Thus God tendering Christ, and through him mercy, as he that hath covenanted with the Father, and undertaken for the soul, commended to his care by the Father. This tender of a Christ, and of Mercy in him, makes the Soul take it: this offering of Christ, as one, to whom he was before given to save, works the heart to receive Christ, and that is believing, which is thus wrought (as ye see) by the giving of the Soul to Christ.
Thus God tendring Christ, and through him mercy, as he that hath covenanted with the Father, and undertaken for the soul, commended to his care by the Father. This tender of a Christ, and of Mercy in him, makes the Soul take it: this offering of Christ, as one, to whom he was before given to save, works the heart to receive Christ, and that is beleeving, which is thus wrought (as ye see) by the giving of the Soul to Christ.
Because Christ gave himself, and Mercy to the Soul, therefore the Soul comes to him. But because the Soul was given to Christ, and his care, he gave himself, and mercy to it. Therefore the Soul was given to Christ; therefore it comes, and believes.
Because Christ gave himself, and Mercy to the Soul, therefore the Soul comes to him. But because the Soul was given to Christ, and his care, he gave himself, and mercy to it. Therefore the Soul was given to Christ; therefore it comes, and beleeves.
If God the Father had not given the Soul to Christ, he ad never taken care of him, never given himself to them; they never received him, nor good from him.