A44344:515
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.
USE, 4. Of Exhortation.
Whither we must go, if we Hope to speed, and to receive this gift, to what door to go, to receive this dole, come to Christ the giver, if we Hope to receive this gift. The Spirit takes of Christ, before he gives it to us: therefore much more we must go to him, before we can receive it. The way lies in these four things.
Whither we must go, if we Hope to speed, and to receive this gift, to what dore to go, to receive this dole, come to Christ the giver, if we Hope to receive this gift. The Spirit takes of Christ, before he gives it to us: therefore much more we must go to him, before we can receive it. The way lies in these four things.
1. See all in him, And Join none with him, as the Author and worker of this. There be instruments to convey Grace, but there is no Author of this, or giver of this, but Christ. Of his fullness we receive. All ⟨p. 98⟩other things are empty without him, and can work nothing further than he will work by them. Christ is all in all. Col. 3.11. Not ordinances, not Duties, not Sacraments: Paul is nothing, Apollo is nothing, but Christ is all, Christ by all, Christ through all these works.