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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. 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. Psal. 15. The Queen is al glorious within. Truth in the inward parts in those contrivements which God alone is privy to. Sound ones in Gods statutes.
2. This impression of glorious Grace in UNIVERSAL. Every faithful hath (not some few, or many, but) all the saving and sanctifying Graces of the Spirit, in all the kinds of them, and is able and doth also put forth the operations thereof, as occasions do invite, and the Law and his own duty doth require at his hands. Joh. 1.16. Of his fullness we all receive, & grace for grace. i.e. for each grace in Christ there is the like, and answerable ⟨p. 89⟩Grace left in the heart of every believer. As it is with the seal and the Wax. There is in the Wax, letter for letter, syllable for syllable, word for word, answerable to that which was in the Seal. Every letter there instamped; is for the kind and number imprinted upon the Wax: So it is with the grace of our Saviour, that is like the seal: our hearts like the wax. We receive patience from his patience, humility in him leaves a like impression of humility in us &c. Holiness from his holiness, courage, from his courage. Hence is that of the Apostle,