A44344:469
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.
For, DIRECTION How to get this glorious grace. Go to him who hath it. As Peter in a like kind. Whither should I go, but unto Christ, the Author of Grace, the giver of all grace and peace? He is the great Almoner, by whom God gives all: As in another case, its said, The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to his Son; so he comforts, quickens none, but by his Son: therefore in these, of all ordinances, priviledge•, performances, look at them only, either as those which lead to Christ, or come from Christ.
For, DIRECTION How to get this glorious grace. Go to him who hath it. As Peter in a like kind. Whither should I go, but unto Christ, the Author of Grace, the giver of all grace and peace? He is the great Almner, by whom God gives al: As in another case, its said, The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed al judgment to his Son; so he comforts, quickens none, but by his Son: therefore in these, of al ordinances, priviledge•, performances, look at them only, either as those which lead to Christ, or come from Christ.
What Christ hath received as man, we have dispatched.
2. What he gives now comes into consideration where there be two Doctrines.
2. What he gives now comes into consideration where there be two Doctrins.