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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.
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.
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 Savior, 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 colors, Red, Green, Blew, Yellow; If the Sun shine upon it, it wil convey the like colors upon that which is opposite to it. The Human Nature of our Savior is as the Glafs, all the Graces in their variety are like so many colors: The Spirit shining upon the Nature of our Savior by it leaves the like impression of Graces upon our Souls, while by faith we keep our Hearts under the stroke thereof.
3. Faith acts each faculty to digest and improve that power from Christ received, for his particular use, according to its particular end. As the Veins deliver up the Blood to each part, as that special portion and provision, which is allowed in the course of Nature, for its relief, and so each part taking the Blood, it doth appropriate it to its own Nature. Bone makes Bone of it, Sinews make Sinews, &c. So Faith, like those Veins, conveys the efficacy of the Blood and merits of Christ to all the faculties, to answer all their necessities.