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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.
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. 2. Cor. 3.18. We all with open face, as in a Glass, behold the glory of God, and are translated or changed (we are transformed, or have a new form or frame set upon us) from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The Glass is the Lord Christ, in whom the Glory of the Grace of God is imprinted, and by whom, and through whom, it is dispensed and communicated to us, that we not only receive, but increase in this Glorious Grace from one degree thereof unto another; And that by the Holy Spirit of the Lord.
Both these are here understood: Grace in the beginning of it, and that especially and Firstly: yet not excluding the perfection of it, For our Saviour speaks of it, as a thing certain to himself, and that which will assuredly also accrue to his, nay which they have now in the kind of it.
Both these are here understood: Grace in the begining of it, and that especially and Firstly: yet not excluding the perfection of it, For our Savior speaks of it, as a thing certain to himself, and that which wil assuredly also accrew to his, nay which they have now in the kind of it.