A44344:296
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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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 ⟨p. 45⟩never brought a man to God, nor kept him with him: But the mutable presence and Spirit of Christ.
So that there is a privilege here above that principle of Grace that was in Adam, for that was but a creature. But here the spirit and so the power of God through Christ, that takes our Nature into the nearest union with him, even personal, which in Adam it attained not, in that purchaseth all for us. Not a principle in us firstly, but the spirit of God in Christ it is, by which, the bent of our Hearts are held and carried towards him, acted by him, and so enabled to hold out the virtue, power, praise, and excellency of the spirit in Christ from the Father.