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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.
So Christ to the faithful. He gives Spiritual being in Adoption to them, as his Sons only: They as Sons return all that spiritual being to him again. So our Saviour; As I am one in them, and thou in me, and by spiritual influence communicate the being of Sons to them. So they are one in me, and to in thee, by receiving and returning all alone unto us. So that our Saviour doth not only bring the Soul of the faithful into the nee•est relation of dearest love as Adopted Sons; But also into that spiritual intercourse of the peculiar and divine operation of God upon the Soul whereby the Soul returns unto God, to do all, and receive all. To do all for himself in man: To receive all to himself by man.
So Christ to the faithful. He gives Spiritual being in Adoption to them, as his Sons only: They as Sons return al that spiritual being to him again. So our Savior; As I am one in them, and thou in me, and by spiritual influence communicate the being of Sons to them. So they are one in me, and to in thee, by receiving and returning al alone unto us. So that our Savior doth not only bring the Soul of the faithful into the nee•est relation of dearest love as Adopted Sons; But also into that spiritual intercourse of the peculiar and divine operation of God upon the Soul whereby the Soul returnes unto God, to do al, and receive al. To do all for himself in man: To receive al to himself by man.
The Lord Jesus having fitted the Soul for himself, and united the Soul to himself, and made the Soul acceptable to the Father in his Blood. He sends the spirit of Adoption into the hearts of his, sets their hearts for God. Holds the •ent of their hearts towards him.
This is the gracious look of a Father towards them. The faithful receiving this spiritual being of Sonship, Fasten to Christ as the fountain of life: leave their hearts with him and abide in him, to be wholly acted