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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.
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This work being savingly and effectually made good upon the soul, it makes way for the enlarged expression of all the fruits and works of holiness, which might further set forth the honour of God, the kingdom of Christ, our own comforts here, and happiness in another world. Its the meaning of that, Joh. 15.5. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. True, it is done by faith: but it is something other, and something more, than the bare coming to Christ, or our Union with him. It is the keeping the Eye of the soul, and carrying the bent of the Heart upon the engagements of Gods dearest love, and the unchangeable work of the spirit of Adoption to be acted by the quickening virtue thereof in Gods time, and after Gods manner, and answerable to our need, and that condition and place we possess in the Body of Christ; for so that phrase implieth. Joh. 6.56. He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood (that is done by believing) He abideth in me, and I in him. That is another and a further work; And it intimates a free and a full intercourse of spiritual communion between God and the soul: and a communication of his presence and spiritual influence upon the believer.
This work being savingly and effectually made good upon the soul, it maks way for the inlarged expression of all the fruits and works of holiness, which might further set forth the honor of God, the kingdom of Christ, our own comforts here, and happiness in another world. Its the meaning of that, Joh. 15.5. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. True, it is done by faith: but it is somthing other, and somthing more, than the bare coming to Christ, or our Union with him. It is the keeping the Eye of the soul, and carrying the bent of the Heart upon the engagements of Gods dearest love, and the unchangeable work of the spirit of Adoption to be acted by the quickning vertue thereof in Gods time, and after Gods manner, and answerable to our need, and that condition and place we possess in the Body of Christ; for so that phrase implieth.