A44344:995
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.
The second Particular. The thing desired.
We are now to inquire after that which is here requested in their behalf: and it is, That they might be where Christ is.
The Lord Jesus is, as I may so say, fond of their presence, and therefore he is not willing to be in Heaven, unless they may be with him: as though Heaven were no Heaven, unless the Saints should take up their abode there. The House would be forlorn, and Heaven desolate, unless the Inhabitants were there, these poor servants of the Lord, to fill up their Rooms and mansions,
The Lord Jesus is, as I may so say, fond of their presence, and therefore he is not willing to be in Heaven, unless they may be with him: as though Heaven were no Heaven, unless the Saints should take up their abode there. The House would be forlorn, and Heaven desolate, unless the Inhabitants were there, these poor servants of the Lord, to fil up their Rooms and mansions,
In this Second Particular there be Three Points especially observable.