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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
Verse 24 › The Eternal Glory of Christ, is a Gift of the Eternal Love of the F… › Reason 1: REAS. I.
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REAS. I.
Love lays out it self for the behoof and benefit of the thing beloved, as much as may be, for the furtherance of the good of it to the utmost of that perfection its able to contrive, and the other able to receive; says not in wishes, but is active and working, not desires only in a kind of complementing formality, but really procures, what may be most useful for the advancement of the thing beloved. Let us not love in word and Tongue only, 1. Joh. 3.18. But in Deed.
Love laies out it self for the behoof and benefit of the thing beloved, as much as may be, for the furtherance of the good of it to the utmost of that perfection its able to contrive, and the other able to receive; saies not in wishes, but is active and working, not desires only in a kind of complementing formality, but really procures, what may be most useful for the advancement of the thing beloved. Let us not love in word and Tongue only, 1. Joh. 3.18. But in Deed.
The love of the Father being of greatest excellency, even of unconceivable virtue & efficacy, & our Saviour being of unmatchable likeness to draw out the love of the Father, and incomparable worth to deserve it, it could not be, but so great love should give the greatest good to one of greatest desert: and therefore must give him that incomprehensible glory, which might be the amazement of the hearts of men and Angels, through all eternity.