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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.
They who share in the Truth of all kinds of Graces, in the Perfections of all kinds, in the Immutability of all those perfections: They partake of the like glorious Grace with our Saviour. This last indeed is the end and perfection of Grace; It was given to Adam, and he should have used it, that he might have been immutable in the use of it: But missing it, he lost his Grace and fell short of glory. Now that which the first Adam should have done and failed, the second Adam hath done, and so hath obtained it.
They who share in the Truth of all kinds of Graces, in the Perfections of al kinds, in the Immutability of al those perfections: They partake of the like glorious Grace with our Savior. This last indeed is the end and perfection of Grace; It was given to Adam, and he should have used it, that he might have been immutable in the use of it: But missing it, he lost his Grace and fel short of glory. Now that which the first Adam should have done and failed, the second Adam hath done, and so hath obtained it.
2. They receive this by Gift.
He it is in whom all Grace, as a fountain is settled. To whom the immediate dispensation and communication of it, is committed by God, and from his free gift, they must receive it.
He it is in whom al Grace, as a fountain is setled. To whom the immediate dispensation and communication of it, is committed by God, and from his free gift, they must receive it.