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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.
no faculty of the soul, but it should be adorned with some glorious impression of the power of Grace, wisdom and prudence in the mind, holiness in the will, harmonious readiness in all the affections, to attend the counsel of the ⟨p. 90⟩Lord, to be instruments of holiness.
no faculty of the soul, but it should be adorned with some glorious impression of the power of Grace, wisedom and prudence in the mind, holiness in the wil, harmonious readiness in al the affections, to attend the counsel of the ⟨p. 90⟩Lord, to be instruments of holiness.
3. As they share in all the kinds of glorious Grace here, while they are in their infancy, and in the Bosom of the Church: So also, They do partake of all the PERFECTIONS of all these kinds: When they shall arrive at the end of their hopes, the Salvation of their souls. Here the earnest, there the full bargain: Here the first fruits, there the whole harvest of holiness and happiness. 1. Joh. 3.2. We are now the sons of God, but it doth not appear, what we shall be, but this is known, that when Christ doth appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Then we shall not see him darkly, as he is revealed in his word, dispensing himself in his Ordinances, But we shall see him, as he it. He shall dart in those unconceivable beams of the fullness of all holiness from himself immediately upon the Soul. Then the Soul shall see nothing but a Christ, and receive nothing but the impressions of the holiness & happiness of a Christ. This is called, the Perfect Man: that a perfect Christian, when this glory is made Perfect: when there shall be no weakness to enfeeble the strength of Grace, no blemishes to darken the surpassing beauty of holiness. This is the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.