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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.
As he that sets or Joints the part that is out, and chafeth it out of its numbness, leaves a remembrance of the power and motion of his Hand: But he that puts in Oil, leaves a quality or Oily moisture which remains in the part.
As he that sets or Joints the part that is out, and chafeth it out of its numness, leaves a remembrance of the power and motion of his Hand: But he that puts in Oyl, leaves a quality or Oyly moisture which remaines in the part.
So here, The spirit draws, and unites the soul in vocation: leaves the poise of the assistance of the spirit upon it in Adoption; whereby it makes the soul abide in Christ and under the stroke of his spirit, as he abides in it.
So here, The spirit draws, and unites the soul in vocation: leaves the poyse of the assistance of the spirit upon it in Adoption; whereby it makes the soul abide in Christ and under the stroke of his spirit, as he abides in it.
And hence follows the impression of the image of God, the gracious habits of wisdom, holiness, righteousness in the will, and so a liberty to spiritual good, whereby the believer is enabled, not only to put forth acts of obedience and observance, which concern the ⟨p. 105⟩works of the Law, but even to set a going, and that a fresh, those several operations of the Spirit, unto which he had been formerly quickened by the virtue of the Gospel, and carried unto by this covenant of Grace, as to fasten to Christ, to abide in him, and resign it self to be acted by him, and the power of his spirit and Grace. And this is indeed a thing of highest excellency, and therefore to this end and purpose the Choicest of all Graces ought in an especial manner to be improved.