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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.
But the glory which is the Prerogative of the Deity, he professeth, he will not give unto another. Isa. 42.8. Therefore this is not intended.
2. GLORY Is put in phrase of Scripture for Grace, whether attended in the entrance and beginnings of it here on Earth: or in the consummation and perfection of it in the highest Heaven. Because there is the greatest worth in it, greatest beauty Issues from it, the greatest esteem and highest account is acknowledged to be due thereunto by those who can judg.
This glorious Grace is called Glory, as that which is attended and accompanied with it; as the Body with the shadow, the Sun with the shine and light: yea that ⟨p. 79⟩supreme excellency, with which the Saints shall be crowned in Heaven, is nothing Else but Grace attaining its full consummation, So that the odds is not in the kind, but in the degree only; and therefore we are sa•d to be blessed in heavenly places, and to si• together with Christ in heavenly places. Eph. 1.3. and 2.6.
This glorious Grace is called Glory, as that which is attended and accompanied with it; as the Body with the shadow, the Sun with the shine and light: yea that ⟨p. 79⟩