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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.
Which delusions notwithstanding are fully dashed by the former Doctrines. If God give sufficient help to all indifferently to be saved, to Judas as to Peter: Then he gives all into the hand, and commends all unto the care of Christ. For this is a principal Grace and favour, and an especial means of life, without which it cannot be attained.
Which delusions notwithstanding are fully dashed by the former Doctrins. If God give sufficient help to al indifferently to be saved, to Judas as to Peter: Then he gives al into the hand, and commends al unto the care of Christ. For this is a principal Grace and favor, and an especial means of life, without which it cannot be attained.
But this God doth not bestow upon all. For all that God gives to Christ, certainly come to him by Faith: for all such he prays, they shall be with him in glory. But all do not come to him by believing, all shall not be with him in Heaven.
But this God doth not bestow upon al. For al that God gives to Christ, certainly come to him by Faith: for al such he prayes, they shal be with him in glory. But al do not come to him by beleeving, al shal not be with him in Heaven.
Again, If coming unto Christ be an effect of giving, ⟨p. 214⟩unto Christ an effect of Election. I pray for those thou hast given me, because they are thine: Thine they were, and thou gavest them me. Then it follows necessarily▪ That because Elected, therefore they have these as fruits thereof, not because they have these, therefore they are Elected.