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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.
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The Gospel is the only means, whereby the Soul is enabled, with power from above, even with a Spirit of Grace f•• to go for succour and relief; where it is thus evidenced, and whence it hath now received some intimation of Gods engagement, intendment and so of certainty, by which it may be encouraged to go upon such ⟨p. 8⟩grounds, as will never fail nor break under a man. That he may go steadily and comfortably 2. Cor. 3.6. Its said to be the administration of the Spirit. Not of the Letter; that is, there is not Barely a discovery and manifestation of what Gods mind and counsel is, that should be done; such the sense and meaning of words and sentences may descry, set out, and hold forth. But there is a Spirit of power, that is promised, and so dispensed and conveyed in and by this word, for to enable the Soul to do that, which the Letter shows it should do; Gods saying is doing, his calling is making: he speaks not only to the ear, but conveys a power by speaking. Lazarus come forth. The dead shall hear. John. 5.25. Gal. 3.3. Received ye the Spirit (even this Spirit) by the preaching of the Law, or by the Doctrine of faith?
The Gospel is the only means, whereby the Soul is inabled, with power from above, even with a Spirit of Grace f•• to go for succour and reliefe; where it is thus evidenced, and whence it hath now received some intimation of Gods ingagement, intendment and so of certainty, by which it may be incouraged to go upon such