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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.
For we know the end is better than the means, and adds beauty to the means, Else there would be a flaw and blemish in glory, and some defect. Eph. 4.13. When all the Churches are perfected and the Saints gathered and come to the fullness of the Stature of Christ, and have attained the unity of the faith. The highest strain of their happiness is, to acknowledge the Son of God. q. d. There is nothing to do in Heaven, but only that. That's the top of glory, and one step higher than all the happiness of all that glorious Grace, they shall enjoy there to perfection: To give in witness through all Eternity, that all the good they have received, it was in Christ as the fountain: all that was done by all means, it was done by him. So the Apostle gives in the Reason of Gods dispensation, It pleased the Father that in him, all fullness should dwell; That in all things he might have the Preeminence.
For we know the end is better than the meanes, and adds beauty to the meanes, Els there would be a flaw and blemish in glory, and some defect. Eph. 4.13. When all the Churches are perfected and the Saints gathered and come to the fulness of the Stature of Christ, and have attained the unity of the faith. The highest strain of their happiness is, to acknowledg the Son of God. q. d. There is nothing to do in Heaven, but only that. That's the top of glory, and one step higher than al the happiness of al that glorious Grace, they shal injoy there to perfection: To give in witness through al Eternity, that al the good they have received, it was in Christ as the fountain: all that was done by al means, it was done by him. So the Apostle gives in the Reason of Gods dispensation, It pleased the Father that in him, all fulness should dwel; That in all things he might have the Preheminence.
The Sacraments were full of comfort and the word and Sermons full of wisdom, consciences full of peace that passeth understanding: but it was because the fullness of Christ overflowed in these & filled these, otherwise had he withdrawn himself, the word had been a clasped Book and a killing letter, and […] heart an empty Vessel.