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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.
1. The world and excellency that is in any thing, whereby it obtains Superiority and Eminency, above other of meaner quality and condition. Thus the Apostle calls the Graces given to us in Adam, Our Glory, Rom. 3.23. We have all sinned, and are deprived of the Glory of God. 2 Cor. 3.18. We are transformed from one degree of Glory, unto another; that is, of glorious Grace. Thus we call a man of special, Spiritual Abilities, a glorious Christian, an eminent Christian. So in verse 22. foregoing, The Glory thou gavest me, I have given to them. So it is said, Joh. 1.14. We beheld the Glory of Christ (what that is, he ads and explicates) full of Grace and Truth.
1. The world and excellency that is in any thing, whereby it obtains Superiority and Eminency, above other of meaner quality and condition. Thus the Apostle cals the Graces given to us in Adam, Our Glory, Rom. 3.23. We have all sinned, and are deprived of the Glory of God. 2 Cor. 3.18. We are transformed from one degree of Glory, unto another; that is, of glorious Grace. Thus we cal a man of special, Spiritual Abilities, a glorious Christian, an eminent Christian. So in verse 22. foregoing, The Glory thou gavest me, I have given to them. So it is said, Joh. 1.14. We beheld the Glory of Christ (what that is, he ads and explicates) full of Grace and Truth.
2. The Expressions, or putting forth of such Abilities, in the most eminent, and choice Operations thereof, because in such Actions, the lustre and beauty of all such excellencies shines forth, and discovers it self.