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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.
4. They share in the CONSTANCY and immutability of all this glorious Grace. When they shall be beyond all fears and changes, above principalities and powers, beyond the noise of temptations which may assault and hinder the work of Grace: without and beyond the sight and presence of sin, which may any ways enfeeble it. Called An excessive, exceeding, eternal weight of glory. 2 Cor. 4.17. This is called the Crown of righteousness. 2 Tim. 4.8. The Crown of life and glory. Jam. 1.12. This is the Diamond in the Crown, and glory of our glory: when Grace is now settled in the Throne, and Crowned with immutability and Eternity, (i.e. becomes victorious and enemies ⟨p. 91⟩vanquished) as admitting no alteration, nay no opposition of any thing to hinder, nay not the sight of any enemy more, that may disturb our settled and established state of happiness.
4. They share in the CONSTANCY and immutability of al this glorious Grace. When they shall be beyond all fears and changes, above principalities and powers, beyond the noise of temptations which may assauk and hinder the work of Grace: without and beyond the sight and presence of sin, which may any waies enfeeble it. Called An excessive, exceeding, eternal weight of glory. 2 Cor. 4.17. This is called the Crown of righteousness. 2 Tim. 4.8. The Crown of life and glory. Jam. 1.12. This is the Diamond in the Crown, and glory of our glory: when Grace is now setled in the Throne, and Crowned with immutability and Eternity, (i.e. becomes victorious and enemies ⟨p. 91⟩vanquished) as admitting no alteration, nay no opposition of any thing to hinder, nay not the sight of any enemy more, that may disturb our setled and established state of happiness.