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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
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2. This Unity is not the unity of affection between each other so much, but the unity of relation to God in Christ: That as the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father, by eternal generation; Believers so ought to be in both, by spiritual Adoption.
2. This Ʋnity is not the unity of affection between each other so much, but the unity of relation to God in Christ: That as the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father, by eternal generation; Beleevers so ought to be in both, by spiritual Adoption.
3. In this Spiritual Adoption, as there is an influence from God in Christ, to bend and settle the frame of the Heart towards him: So there is a re-fluence and return, by the power and impression left of the same spirit to come again to him. Conveyance of help on Gods hand should quicken our dependence to look to him, and stay our selves with him there.
3. In this Spiritual Adoption, as there is an influence from God in Christ, to bend and settle the frame of the Heart towards him: So there is a re-fluence and return, by the power and impression left of the same spirit to come again to him. Conveyance of help on Gods hand should quicken our dependance to look to him, and stay our selves with him there.
4. Had Adam stood, his posterity, out of principles, in themselves, might have challenged happiness, though a covenant performed by a man, conveyed by a man, unto them, by way of natural generation.