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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.
It was that which was plotted by the Head and policy of Satan, and brought about by the fall and through the folly of our first parents; To break off this unity and Oneness betwixt God and Adam: For Satan had found it by woeful experience in himself, that by sin God would be estranged from him, and he also from God: neither to find his favour towards him, nor the presence of his spirit of Grace to work upon him: nor yet would Adam, thus departed, act for God, nor return to him that praise he ought: So that God and Adam are not one, but at odds.
It was that which was plotted by the Head and policy of Satan, and brought about by the fal and through the folly of our first parents; To break off this unity and Oneness betwixt God and Adam: For Satan had found it by woful experience in himself, that by sin God would be estranged from him, and he also from God: neither to find his favour towards him, nor the presence of his spirit of Grace to work upon him: nor yet would Adam, thus departed, act for God, nor return to him that praise he ought: So that God and Adam are not one, but at odds.
Its the meaning of that place. Gal. 3.19, 20. When the Apostle had showed the weakness of the Law, in the work of Justification, and the promise only carried it; He makes thing Objection; wherefore then served the Law, i.e. The giving of the Law? Answer; It was to discover transgression; and therefore it was given by the Hand of a Mediator, to-wit Moses, who was between God and the people.
Its the meaning of that place. Gal. 3.19, 20. When the Apostle had shewed the weakness of the Law, in the work of Justification, and the promise only carried it; He makes thig Objection; wherefore then served the Law, i.e. The giving of the Law? Answer; It was to discover transgression; and therefore it was given by the Hand of a Mediator, to-wit Moses, who was between God and the people.