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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.
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.
As it is with the beams of the Sun that be in the aire, 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 decayes 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 al grace and glory.
See this truth made good in four particulars.
1. This grace is Inward and spiritual, not that which orders a mans carriage in regard of himself, nor moralizes his behaviour to walk civilly and inoffensively towards others: but it leaves an impression upon the most inward motions of the soul, as they meet with God in the most retired and refined actions thereof. Psal. 15. The Queen is all glorious within. Truth in the inward parts in those contrivements which God alone is privy to. Sound ones in Gods statutes.
1. This grace is Inward and spiritual, not that which orders a mans carriage in regard of himself, nor moralizes his behavior to walk civilly and inoffensively towards others: but it leaves an impression upon the most inward motions of the soul, as they meet with God in the most retired and refined actions thereof.