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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.
1. The Saints share in a like glorious grace with Christ. 2. This glorious grace they receive by way of gift from our Saviour.
1. The Saints share in a like glorious grace with Christ. 2. This glorious grace they receive by way of gift from our Savior.
To the First. 2. Cor. 3.18. The Apostles Testimony is pregnant, even to the letter of the doctrine. We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, &c. i. e. while by Faith, in the evidence of the gospel, we behold the glorious grace of God imprinted upon the humane nature of our Saviour, we come to receive the like print and impression of glorious grace upon our own Souls. 2. Tim. 2.1. My Son be strong in the Grace that is in Christ.
To the First. 2. Cor. 3.18. The Apostles Testimony is pregnant, even to the letter of the doctrine. We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, &c. i. e. while by Faith, in the evidence of the gospel, we behold the glorious grace of God imprinted upon the humane nature of our Savior, we come to receive the like print and impression of glorious grace upon our own Souls. 2. Tim. 2.1. My Son be strong in the Grace that is in Christ.
As it is with the beams of the Sun that be in the air, they have heat and light continued to them, while they are continued to the body of the sun: If once that be intercepted, the other decays and vanisheth away; So it is with the grace that i in us, which hath its beauty and glorious strength from the daily influence and continuance we have and hold in our communion and sweet intercourse with the Lord Jesus, as the fountain of all grace and glory.