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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.
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⟩supream excellency, with which the Saints shal be crowned in Heaven, is northing Els but Grace attaining its ful 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.
Here is the suburbs of happiness, and of the New Jerusalem. Grace is the Porch, as it were, Glory the Palace. Thus ye shall find it. Rom. 3.23. But it is most pregnant and very remarkable.