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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.
Grace is first in his Human Nature: For since the fall, and that Adam, through his just desert, hath deprived him of the Grace, that God had given him in Innocency: Had not our Saviour taken our Nature into union with himself; that in it he might suffer and satisfy and purchase Gods Favour and spirit to bring us again: It had not been possible, that ever any grace should have been imparted to us.
Grace is first in his Human Nature: For since the fal, and that Adam, through his just desert, hath deprived him of the Grace, that God had given him in Innocency: Had not our Savior taken our Nature into union with himself; that in it he might suffer and satisfie and purchase Gods Favor and spirit to bring us again: It had not been possible, that ever any grace should have been imparted to us.
He is the Head of his Church. Eph. 1: 22. The Root or Stock unto the Scions and Branches. Joh. 15.1.
The fountain of living Water, all means, and men, and ordinances, are but conduits, which give no more than they do receive: As the Moon from the Sun: as the looking Glass reflects the light, hath no light. 2. Cor. 4.6. To give the light of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
The fountain of living Water, al means, and men, and ordinances, are but conduits, which give no more than they do receive: As the Moon from the Sun: as the looking Glass reflects the light, hath no light.