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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.
I. Reason.
1. Because this is the scope of our Saviours coming into ⟨p. 46⟩the world, and the next end, I say, the next end he intended in the great work of Redemption, which he wrought for lost man; To bring him into this near relation of dearest Love of the Father, by himself and the work of his spirit: and its that wherein the life and power and pith of the covenant of Grace, doth especially consist and appear, and the excellency thereof.
1. Because this is the scope of our Saviors coming into ⟨p. 46⟩the world, and the next end, I say, the next end he intended in the great work of Redemption, which he wrought for lost man; To bring him into this neer relation of dearest Love of the Father, by himself and the work of his spirit: and its that wherein the life and power and pith of the covenant of Grace, doth especially consist and appeare, and the excellency thereof.
That peculiar and spiritual intercourse, not alone of affection, but of divine operation of God upon the soul, whereby the soul returns all unto God, to do all, and to receive all, to do all for himself in man, and to receive all to himself by man.
That peculiar and spiritual intercourse, not alone of affection, but of divine operation of God upon the soul, whereby the soul returns all unto God, to do al, and to receive all, to do all for himself in man, and to receive all to himself by man.