A44344:534
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.
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passeth understanding: but it was because the fullness of Christ overflowed in these & filled these, otherwise had he withdrawn himself, the word had been a clasped Book and a killing letter, and […] heart an empty Vessel.
Tha Sacraments were ful of comfort and the word and Sermons ful of wisedom, consciences ful of peace that passeth understanding: but it was because the fulness of Christ overflowed in these & filled these, otherwise had he withdrawn himself, the word had been a clasped Book and a killing letter, and 〈…〉 heart an empty Vessel.
So the Soul in glory, acknowledge no means, nor orders, ⟨p. 101⟩nor offices further than he appoints them, nor was there any power in them or virtue communicated thereby, further than the Lord was pleased to work by them. The power was Christ that strengthened; The life and virtue Christ that quickened. The success was Christs only, who was pleated to breath upon and bless.
So the Soul in glory, acknowledg no means, nor orders, ⟨p. 101⟩nor offices further than he appoints them, nor was there any power in them or vertue communicated thereby, further than the Lord was pleased to work by them. The power was Christ that strengthened; The life and vertue Christ that quickened. The success was Christs only, who was pleated to breath upon and bless.
I take it to be the meaning of that place very difficult, and the expression very spiritual and of a high strain.