A44344:551
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.
Answ. The words in the Text evidence the distinction: i. e. They differ, as the means appointed to an end are distinct from the end.
This unity of relation carries the glorious operations or motions of the presence of the Spirit upon the believers Heart.
This unity of relation carries the glorious operations or motions of the presence of the Spirit upon the beleevers Heart.
I call them Stirrings of his presence, as implying that which is somewhat more general, than the gracious dispositions, spiritual and supernatural habits of Grace. For though those also Issue from the operation of the spirit, yet they are somewhat more.
I cal them Stirrings of his presence, as implying that which is somwhat more general, than the gracious dispositions, spiritual and supernatural habits of Grace. For though those also Issue from the operation of the spirit, yet they are somwhat more.
As the Spirit assisting, fastening, holding the heart, and making it to abide under the stroke of the spirit, pacifying, quickening; Are not so much habits of Grace poured into the Soul, but rather Dints and stirrings of the Spirit assisting or inhabiting.