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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.
To behold then, the Glory of Christ, is, by an actual and attentive survey of the excellency thereof, to be suitably, or experimentally affected therewith.
2. The Manner how this is done, appears in three Things: 1. Immediately, as he is then pleased to shine in, and send in beams of his Grace and Holiness, directly and nextly upon the Soul, 1 Cor. 13.12. We now see through a Gla•s darkly: as the excellency of our Saviour comes covered and veiled in Providences and Ordinances, and so made liable to the dimness or our Eye, while we walk in the shadow of darkness here. As the Soul of a man, which cannot come to our view in regard of its Spiritual Nature, yet we perceive the presence of it, as it's speaking in the tongue, and stirring in other parts of the Body. So▪ 2. We see him then more fully, wese 11. more of ⟨p. 372⟩him, and the excellency of his Glory, than can be attained in this Life, 1 John 3.2. ••e shall see him as he is, that is, in himself. We here apprehend so much of Christ as the Ordinances either present, or convey in the work thereof, either according to its weakness, or Gods blessing. One text affords matter of Humiliation, another of Comfort, another of Direction; and that so much of Christ as he will drop in, in this or that Ordinance: and how little do we see of hin•• yet that's all we seek; and that's all the good we can receive to do us good. But them Christ in the glorious sufficiency of the fullness of his Grace, shall shine in a-main upon the mind, in the full beauty of it. Al Comfort, and Peace, and Grace of all kinds, shall like a mighty stream, take up the whole man. Here by re-tale, as persons who are poor, buy, and bring in their Provisions. Then by whole-sale. Here the Light of the Sun shining in a crevice, and day-hole, leaves yet the place dark, but then the Lord Christ shall arise as the Sun of Righteousness, and fill (as that the whole Heaven; so this) the whole heart. So Christ shines in the Counsels, Comforts &c. of the Ministry of the Word, and makes us see the Day-star arising, but still there be shadows: But then he will arise in our hearts, and all these shadows shall fly away. I shall know as I am known. 3. Most effectually and powerfully,