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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.
REASON 2.
1. Because they are the Fathers own; and therefore he hath most right and reason to dispose of them, and to give them away, as he sees sit, when it will be most seasonable to procure the good and comfort thereof. This is the ground our Saviour goes upon, Thine they were, and thou gavest &c. Each man hath most to do with that, which is his proper right. Now the Father had set his heart upon them, before the World, and appointed them to be Vessels of Mercy, in his everlasting purpose: and therefore it's but equal, that he should order all things for the accomplishment of the Counsel of his own Will, and the performance of his Sovereign good Pleasure without control, John, 6. I came not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me: and this is the will of him that sent me, That I should lose none that he hath given me. It's sit that God should do his own Will, whose Will is the absolute First-Cause of all things that are done.
1. Because they are the Fathers own; and therefore he hath most right and reason to dispose of them, and to give them away, as he sees sit, when it wil be most seasonable to procure the good and comfort therof. This is the ground our Savior goes upon, Thine they were, and thou gavest &c. Each man hath most to do with that, which is his proper right. Now the Father had set his heart upon them, before the World, and appointed them to be Vessels of Mercy, in his everlasting purpose: and therefore it's but equal, that he should order al things for the accomplishment of the Counsel of his own Will, and the performance of his Soveraign good Pleasure without controul, John, 6. I came not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me: and this is the will of him that sent me, That I should lose none that he hath given me. It's sit that God should do his own Will, whose Will is the absolute First-Cause of all things that are done.