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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.
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.
3. Faith acts each faculty to disgest and improve that power from Christ received, for his particular use, according to its particular end. As the Veines 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 al their necessities.
4. We must wait Gods leisure, and stay his time for the bestowing of his favours. Beggars must not be Choosers; And nothing more free than gift: And therefore he that will challenge it, at his time, and according to his will, makes it a Debt, and not a Gift.
4. We must wait Gods leasure, and stay his time for the bestowing of his favors. Beggers must not be Chusers; And nothing more free than gift: And therefore he that will challenge it, at his time, and according to his wil, makes it a Debt, and not a Gift.
That they may be one, as we are one.