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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.
Now the scope of our Saviours coming is, to bring the Soul back again unto God, by himself, and to make it one with the Father and himself. It was beyond the power of any created Grace to bring back a fallen Soul; but the God-Head of Christ, in the Nature of man assumed, must bring the Nature of man to God again. And where as, it was found by proof in our first parents; that the power of created Grace did not, nay indeed could not, hold the Soul unchangeably to him, and so to act by, and for him.
Now the scope of our Saviors coming is, to bring the Soul back again unto God, by himself, and to make it one with the Father and himself. It was beyond the power of any created Grace to bring back a fallen Soul; but the God-Head of Christ, in the Nature of man assumed, must bring the Nature of man to God again. And where as, it was found by proof in our first parents; that the power of created Grace did not, nay indeed could not, hold the Soul unchangeably to him, and so to act by, and for him.
Herein lies the life and incomparable excellency of the covenant of Grace, and the fullness of the sufficiency of the quickening power of the second Adam, the Lord Jesus, not only to procure unto acceptance and approbation with the Father, but the lively communication of himself, and the assistance of his spirit, to keep our hearts, and the gracious work thereof to him for ever.
Herein lies the life and incomparable excellency of the covenant of Grace, and the fulness of the sufficiency of the quickning power of the second Adam, the Lord Jesus, not only to procure unto acceptance and approbation with the Father, but the lively communication of himself, and the assistance of his spirit, to keep our hearts, and the gracious work thereof to him for ever.
So that, though our Graces might and would fall us in Adam, yet the spirit of Jesus upholds and holds us for ever towards him, a fountain of living water. Though