A44344:1082
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.
USE, 2.
DIRECTION. It leads us by the hand, the right way, whither to go, and shows us the ready means, how to derive quickening power and enlivening virtue. Do as Stephen in his greatest strait, Act. 7.56. He looked, and saw Christ standing at the right hand of God. Hebr. 7.16. He is the Author of endless life, and therefore without end, look this way. Hence do two things.
DIRECTION. It leads us by the hand, the right way, whither to go, and shews us the ready means, how to derive quickning power and inlivening vertue. Do as Stephen in his greatest streight, Act. 7.56. He looked, and saw Christ standing at the right hand of God. Hebr. 7.16. He is the Author of endless life, and therefore without end, look this way. Hence do two things.
1. Know that he stands possessed of all right of communication and hath the immediate execution of all efficacious power and dominion over all creatures. Math. 28. This is the commission he hath, and in virtue of this, he sends, quickens, succeeds and therefore look at ⟨p. 334⟩him, as a glorious Saviour. When he ascended, then was the time of his coronation gifts; then he gave gifts. As we say, of men honest and able, when we repair to them for relief, its replied, Alas, they are out of commission. So if we look at Christs Graces in his humiliation, and in the days of his suffering, they are out of commission: But when he comes to ascend, he is then in commission, and so carries all before him. Being ascended, he sheds abroad &c. Say, there is no power in me, neither word nor ordinances, but all power and all things are given to thy ministry, therefore blessed Lord, by thy power subdue our sins, and quicken our Souls.