A44344:495
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.
2. For this end, the human Nature of our Saviour hath received, and is become the first subject of all Grace, that from thence it might be derived unto the Nature of his Children. For this end, in our Nature he hath performed what ever divine Justice hath required, purchased, and provided a way and means for the communication of all Grace to his: Therefore undoubtedly he will give it, and they receive it: Otherwise, he should miss his end, and they their good.
2. For this end, the human Nature of our Savior hath received, and is become the first subject of al Grace, that from thence it might be derived unto the Nature of his Children. For this end, in our Nature he hath performed what ever divine Justice hath required, purchased, and provided a way and means for the communication of al Grace to his: Therefore undoubtedly he wil give it, and they receive it: Otherwise, he should miss his end, and they their good.
1. For this end he hath received all Grace. For had not the second person, by the power of the Deity, brought our Nature to God, and assumed it into personal union with himself, so that the fullness of the God-Head might dwell Bodily in it, and so the fullness of all Grace communicated thereunto: It had not been possible that ever the Sons of Adam, who are become enemies to God and the work of his Grace, should have been made partakers thereof, being wholly cross thereunto. Col. 2.10. Ye are complete in Christ, because in him dwelleth all the fullness of the God-Head Bodily. Ye need no other King to rule, nor Prophet to teach, nor Priest to sanctify.
1. For this end he hath received al Grace. For had not the second person, by the power of the Deity, brought our Nature to God, and assumed it into personal union with himself, so that the fulness of the God-Head might dwel Bodily in it, and so the fulness of al Grace communicated thereunto: It had not been possible that ever the Sons of Adam, who are become enemies to God and the work of his Grace, should have been made partakers thereof, being wholly cross thereunto.