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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.
As he made glorious in you by receiving: So you may be glorified in him, by returning all to him, while you, Put forth the exercise of all upon Christ, and ⟨p. 379⟩through him, upon God. You by receiving of Grace become to have his image: by the exercise of Grace, you become to be like him, and suck out the sweet of that infinite good that is in him. For herein lies the beatifical Vision of God. If truly glorious and efficacious, brings in the fruition of him and his goodness, which is our last end, and chiefest good, which is not to be in Heaven, but to please God, and choose his will, will his will. We meet with God, and suck out a satisfying goodness in him in so doing, this is one end.
As he made glorious in you by receiving: So you may be glorified in him, by returning al to him, while you, Put forth the exercise of all upon Christ, and ⟨p. 379⟩through him, upon God. You by receiving of Grace become to have his image: by the exercise of Grace, you become to be like him, and suck out the sweet of that infinite good that is in him. For herein lies the beatifical Vision of God. If truly glorious and efficatious, brings in the fruition of him and his goodness, which is our last end, and chiefest good, which is not to be in Heaven, but to please God, and choose his wil, wil his wil. We meet with God, and suck out a satisfying goodness in him in so doing, this is one end.
But both these are to be attended and neither separated from the other. The well-working and exercise of our Grace is the end: but that Barely I doubt will not do it. For no creature can give content to the Soul, but our well-working is a creature. Therefore with that I added also, A relish of satisfying goodness, or comprehending of that goodness, That is, God in his goodness, by acting upon him, and we communicating from him, all the perfection we are capable of.
But both these are to be attended and neither seperated from the other. The wel-working and exercise of our Grace is the end: but that Barely I doubt wil not do it. For no creature can give content to the Soul, but our wel-working is a creature. Therefore with that I added also, A rellish of satisfying goodness, or comprehending of that goodness, That is, God in his goodness, by acting upon him, and we communicating from him, al the perfection we are capable of.