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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.
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:
But then none of all these, are in the Eye and desire; but all the faculties of the Soul are fully taken up with God. This is the errand of our lives, and the end why we came into the world. This is intimated in. 2. Thess. 1.11, 12. Wherefore I pray always for you, that God would make you worthy of your Calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, That the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the Grace of God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. The meaning is, That God would Count them worthy of their calling; That is, the glory unto which they were called: and so Fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness; that is, fully bestow all that special good which in the purpose of his good pleasure, he intended to them, and the work of Faith with power; that is, bring the work of faith to perfection.
But then none of al these, are in the Eye and desire; but al the faculties of the Soul are fully taken up with God. This is the errand of our lives, and the end why we came into the world. This is intimated in. 2. Thess. 1.11, 12. Wherefore I pray alwaies for you, that God would make you worthy of your Calling, and fulfil al the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, That the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the Grace of God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. The meaning is, That God would Count them worthy of their calling; That is, the glory unto which they were called: and so Fulfil al the good pleasure of his goodness; that is, fully bestow al that special good which in the purpose of his good pleasure, he intended to them, and the work of Faith with power; that is, bring the work of faith to perfection.