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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 its otherwise with our Saviour. He is Zealous, and meek, and patient and nothing can be added to the measure, fullness, and perfection of these. Eph. 4.13. Unto the measure of the stature &c.
But its otherwise with our Savior. He is Zealous, and meek, and patient and nothing can be added to the measure, fulness, and perfection of these. Eph. 4.13. Ʋnto the measure of the stature &c.
3. Without ALTERATION, or possibility of loosing, weakening or decaying in the power of any Grace. This was incident, as we find by woeful experience, to the state and perfection of Adam in innocency. He came completely furnished with all abilities, which might answer his condition, and the obtaining of his end. His understanding and knowledge clear; and yet became first to be darkened, then deluded, and then lost and taken away from him. His will holy, and fitted to choose and to enjoy the chiefest good, but immediately unsettled and perverted: and corruption defaceth the whole man.
3. Without ALTERATION, or possibility of loosing, weakening or decaying in the power of any Grace. This was incident, as we find by woful experience, to the state and perfection of Adam in innocency. He came compleatly furnished with all abilities, which might answer his condition, and the obtaining of his end. His understanding and knowledg clear; and yet became first to be darkned, then deluded, and then lost and taken away from him. His will holy, and fitted to choose and to injoy the chiefest good, but immediately unsetled and perverted: and corruption defaceth the whol man.