A44344:985
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
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2. As Gods own Right, so their own proper, and peculiar good, is hereby especially, if not only, procured. For had not God the Father, given them to his Son, he would not, nay, I may truly say, he never could have given Grace, and Mercy, or Good to them, in a righteous way, preserving the Right and Honour of his Justice, ⟨p. 212⟩and so the Glory of himself. For had not Christ taken the care and charge of us, the Justice of God would never have suffered him to have showed us Mercy: we should never have been fitted, nor enabled to receive Mercy. For we having wronged his Justice, and provoked his Anger, by reason of our Transgressions, his Justice would have stood offended, and his Displeasure incensed against us, by reason thereof. Nay, he did give a Commission to our sins, under the hand of Divine Justice, to take vengeance of the Soul; and this stopped the influence of Gods Mercy, or the least intimation of God from coming to our Souls; and being now under the guilt and power of our sins, though mercy had been tendered, we were utterly disenabled to receive it, having no power thereunto.
2. As Gods own Right, so their own proper, and peculiar good, is hereby especially, if not only, procured. For had not God the Father, given them to his Son, he would not, nay, I may truly say, he never could have given Grace, and Mercy, or Good to them, in a righteous way, preserving the Right and Honor of his Justice, ⟨p. 212⟩and so the Glory of himself. For had not Christ taken the care and charge of us, the Justice of God would never have suffered him to have shewed us Mercy: we should never have been fitted, nor enabled to receive Mercy. For we having wronged his Justice, and provoked his Anger, by reason of our Transgressions, his Justice would have stood offended, and his Displeasure incensed against us, by reason thereof. Nay, he did give a Commission to our sins, under the hand of Divine Justice, to take vengeance of the Soul; and this stopped the influence of Gods Mercy, or the least intimation of God from coming to our Souls; and being now under the guilt and power of our sins, though mercy had been tendred, we were utterly disenabled to receive it, having no power thereunto.