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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.
This is an especial part of that reward that God hath promised unto his: not to have freedom from annoyance, nay the presence of evil, but to have himself: God communicating himself in all the fullness of perfections fully to the Soul, as it is capable of. God is the Objective happiness to the Soul in himself, and so its equal to all: but God communicating himself in his fullness, as ⟨p. 378⟩far as a sinner is capable, is part of that special reward we have in Heaven. Gen. 15.1. Lament: 3.24.
This is an especial part of that reward that God hath promised unto his: not to have freedom from annoyance, nay the presence of evil, but to have himself: God communicating himself in al the fulness of perfections fully to the Soul, as it is capable of. God is the Objective happiness to the Soul in himself, and so its equal to al: but God communicating himself in his fulness, as ⟨p. 378⟩far as a sinner is capable, is part of that special reward we have in Heaven. Gen. 15.1. Lament: 3.24.
2. Reas. More of our Souls are for God. For now the strength of the whole man is wholly spent and exercised in the enjoying of God, and him only and immediately. God without means: God instead of all means: God only and no means. Now some love, and joy, and desire &c. Is spent upon the choice ordinances:
2. Reas. More of our Souls are for God. For now the strength of the whole man is wholly spent and exercised in the injoying of God, and him only and immediately. God without means: God instead of al means: God only and no means. Now some love, and joy, and desire &c. Is spent upon the choice ordinances: