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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.
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.
So that God alone doth all in this, firstly upon man, and then by man. If this work was so much in the Eye of our Saviour, and that intended: So chief also in the performance, and that accomplished with care: no wonder it had the next Room and remembrance in his prayer. But so it was: this was the main errand of our Saviour, when he was sent into the world, and the very life of the kingdom of Grace, and the covenant of Grace, as it concerned them. So the Lord professeth by the Prophet, Esa. 49, 5, And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the Womb, to be his servant: Our Saviour, appointed in Gods decree, sanctified and overshadowed by the Holy Ghost in the womb, and called to this end, for this work, To bring Jacob back again to him.
So that God alone doth all in this, firstly upon man, and then by man. If this work was so much in the Eye of our Savior, and that intended: So chief also in the performance, and that accomplished with care: no wonder it had the next Room and remembrance in his prayer. But so it was: this was the main errand of our Savior, when he was sent into the world, and the very life of the kingdom of Grace, and the covenant of Grace, as it concerned them. So the Lord professeth by the Prophet, Esa. 49, 5, And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the Womb, to be his servant: Our Savior, appointed in Gods decree, sanctified and overshadowed by the Holy Ghost in the womb, and called to this end, for this work, To bring Jacob back again to him.