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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.
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.
1. See all in him, And Joyn 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 fulness we receive. All ⟨p. 98⟩other things are empty without him, and can work nothing further than he will work by them. Christ is al in al. 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.
2. Look at that in Christ, which we need and would have, and keep the heart under the stroke of the Spirit in Christ, that working Grace in the Nature of our Saviour, from thence he may work Grace in us. If we would have patience, Eye the patience of Christ, and the Spirit working patience in him, and from his patience, patience in me. As it is in a Glass that hath many colours, Red, Green, Blew, Yellow; If the Sun shine upon it, it will convey the like colours upon that which is opposite to it. The Human Nature of our Saviour is as the Glass, all the Graces in their variety are like so many colours: The Spirit shining upon the Nature of our Saviour by it leaves the like impression of Graces upon our Souls, while by faith we keep our Hearts under the stroke thereof.