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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.
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. Eph. 4.13.
3. As they share in al 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 al these kinds: When they shal arrive at the end of their hopes, the Salvation of their souls. Here the earnest, there the ful bargain: Here the first fruits, there the whol harvest of holines and happiness. 1. Joh. 3.2. We are now the sons of God, but it doth not appear, what we shal be, but this is known, that when Christ doth appear, we shal be like him, for we shal 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 unconceiveable beames of the fulness 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 fulness of Christ.