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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.
3. Gives him full commission for the accomplishment of this work unto the full, even as he is the Son of man; ⟨p. 62⟩hath given right and liberty to the humane Nature of ours now received into personal union, to use and improve any of the Attributes of the Deity, for the further benefit of the Saints, the good of his Church, and the furtherance of those spiritual ends, which may best •et forwards the glory of God, and the everlasting welfare of his people.
3. Gives him ful commission for the accomplishment of this work unto the ful, even as he is the Son of man; ⟨p. 62⟩hath given right and liberty to the humane Nature of ours now received into personal union, to use and improve any of the Attributes of the Deity, for the further benefit of the Saints, the good of his Church, and the furtherance of those spiritual ends, which may best •et forwards the glory of God, and the everlasting wellfare of his people.
This so wonderful a union doth advantage the Humane Nature to so high a privilege, to use all the excellencies of the Deity, at all times, answerable to all necessities, to fetch supply suitable, to the wants, desires, comforts of the Saints. This is the meaning of those places. Math. 28.18. All power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth. To have all power, it to be Omnipotent, for more than all cannot be conceived no• possessed: more than that, God hath not: and that because it is an in-communicable Attribute, he cannot communicate: but the meaning is; though it be not omnipotent, yet it hath liberty to set that on work, for the benefit and best good of Gods servants.