A44344:1209
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.
Grace glories now over all the violence of temptations, the rage of distempers, the allurements of the World: not only dead, but buried our of the way, and out of sight, it hath now removed all. 1 Cor. 15.24. Christ is said to put down, [Greek or Hebrew] take off all activity of rule authority and power [Greek or Hebrew], no right they can claim, no authority they can exercise no power ⟨p. 370⟩they can put forth whereas here Satan, before conversion, hath a right, exerciseth authority, puts forth power; and all these in part after Conversion.
Grace glories now over al the violence of temptations, the rage of distempers, the allurements of the World: not only dead, but buried our of the way, and out of sight, it hath now removed al. 1 Cor. 15.24. Christ is said to put down, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 take off al activity of rule authority and power 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, no right they can claim, no authority they can exercise no power ⟨p. 370⟩they can put forth• whereas here Satan, before conversion, hath a right, exerciseth authority, puts forth power; and al these in part after Conversion.
When thus our Saviour is exalted in the Highest strain of Eminency, and activity or all these Divine Excellencies and Perfections, far above all Principalities; so that he stands fully possessed of all right in fullness of Communication, and the fullness of all exercise for immediate dispensation (How Christ hath Glory given him, we have showed before) So that there is no impediment in regard of Enemies, World, Flesh, Devil to oppose; no weakness on our part to receive it; no stoppage on Christs part, either in regard of his Covenant, or Counsel, and way of his Providence, to cause him to withhold the letting in of the full ou of his saving Grace and Mercy in that full measure the Saints can attain in the Body of Christ.