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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.
We are then come to the Pinnacle of the perfection of happiness it self, and there seems to be something more, & one step higher, than the glorious Grace of Heaven; look we only to the glory of that Grace, that shall be imprinted upon the Saints and perfected in them at that time.
We are then come to the Pinnacle of the perfection of happiness it self, and there seems to be somthing more, & one step higher, than the glorious Grace of Heaven; look we only to the glory of that Grace, that shal be imprinted upon the Saints and perfected in them at that time.
Here we have the Diamond of the Crown of glory even the love of the Father whereby he hath loved Christ himself, and which is better than life it self, or sanctifying Grace it self; when it is come to the greatest perfection, as we shall endeavour to speak to it, when we come to that place. Its the last resolution of Pauls confidence, and the top of the rock, whereon the Soul rests, Its beyond all gunshot. I am persuaded &c. That neither Principalities nor powers &c. Shall ever be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ. It was before all these, therefore it cannot be reached by any of these.
Here we have the Diamond of the Crown of glory even the love of the Father whereby he hath loved Christ himself, and which is better than life it self, or sanctifying Grace it self; when it is come to the greatest perfection, as we shal indeavor to speak to it, when we come to that place. Its the last resolution of Pauls confidence, and the top of the rock, whereon the Soul rests, Its beyond al gunshot. I am peeswaded &c. That neither Principalities nor powers &c. Shal ever be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ. It was before al these, therefore it cannot be reached by any of these.