A44344:1210
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.
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.
When thus our Savior is exalted in the Highest strain of Eminency, and activity or al these Divine Excellencies and Perfections, far above al Principalities; so that he stands fully possessed of al right in fulness of Communication, and the fulness of al exercise for immediate dispensation (How Christ hath Glory given him, we have shewed 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 ful •ou••• of his saving Grace and Mercy in that ful measure the Saints can attain in the Body of Christ.
2. What it is to behold this Glory.
For Answer, enquire two Things: 1. What this Beholding implies. 2. The Manner how it is done.