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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.
God was a Father to Adam in Creation, in giving ⟨p. 389⟩him his Being, as one of his Generation, which was brought out of his Wisdom, Power, and Goodness: but this Love, though it was dear, and the greatest that God extended to any Creature in the World: yet Adam fell from that Estate, and became a Child of Wrath.
God was a Father to Adam in Creation, in giving ⟨p. 389⟩him his Being, as one of his Generation, which was brought out of his Wisdom, Power, and Goodness: but this Love, though it was dear, and the greatest that God extended to any Creature in the World: yet Adam fel from that Estate, and became a Child of Wrath.
But the Faithful look not to the Love of a Father merely, but to the Love of his Faithfulness, and that will not fail, not shall they ever fall from it; and therefore ye shall observe in the Description of our Saviour, which is laid forth at large in the first of the Revelation, in the Sum and full discovery of the excellency of Christ, that the Lord appears, and presents him to each Church in the expression of Excellency, which answered the particular necessity of the Churches Condition.
But the Faithful look not to the Love of a Father meerly, but to the Love of his Faithfulness, and that wil not fail, not shal they ever fal from it; and therefore ye shal observe in the Description of our Savior, which is laid forth at large in the first of the Revelation, in the Sum and ful discovery of the excellency of Christ, that the Lord appears, and presents him to each Church in the expression of Excellency, which answered the particular necessity of the Churches Condition.