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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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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.
But in the covenant of the Gospel, the second Adam, the second person, taking our Nature, by the power of the Deity, wrought all for us, communicates all to us: by the same almighty power, enables us to receive what we have from him: To be acted in all by him; To return all to him. The mutable principle in the creature ⟨p. 45⟩never brought a man to God, nor kept him with him: But the mutable presence and Spirit of Christ.
But in the covenant of the Gospel, the second Adam, the second person, taking our Nature, by the power of the Deity, wrought al for us, communicates al to us: by the same almighty power, inables us to receive what we have from him: To be acted in al by him; To return all to him. The mutable principle in the creature