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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.
When the Devil and wicked men knew such men in their unbelieving courses, under the curse of the Law and the power of their corruptions, contemners of Christ and mercy. The Devils have seen men holy and to walk unblameably; so in paradise; and therein God is glorified, and his virtues expressed: But when they shall see such poor wretched creatures at Gods right hand. He was sunk deep under the curse of the Law, now pardoned: under the Tyranny of Satan, and so in his Claws, he took him alive, now restored. In the bottom of Hell, now delivered. In death, and darkness now again restored to life, and he that was so opposite to Christ, now brought so near to him and the Father, and in them enjoy the blessed and holy communion, which is beyond the happiness of Heaven.
When the Devil and wicked men knew such men in their unbeleeving courses, under the curse of the Law and the power of their corruptions, contemners of Christ and mercy. The Devils have seen men holy and to walk unblameably; so in paradise; and therein God is glorified, and his vertues expressed: But when they shall see such poor wretched creatures at Gods right hand. He was sunk deep under the curse of the Law, now pardoned: under the Tyranny of Satan, and so in his Claws, he took him alive, now restored. In the bottom of Hel, now delivered. In death, and darkness now again restored to life, and he that was so opposite to Christ, now brought so neer to him and the Father, and in them injoy the blessed and holy communion, which is beyond the happiness of Heaven.
The Angels will be swallowed with admiration, and the Devils confounded and astonished, at the wonderment of the unconceivable compassion of the Lord, and the blessedness of this condition. 1 Cor. 15. The first Adam was a living Soul, could by natural generation beget one like himself: But the second Adam is a quickening spirit: That when dead, he can quicken them: when lost, and opposite to him and Grace, he can and doth receive them to himself.
The Angels wil be swallowed with admiration, and the Devils confounded and astonished, at the wonderment of the unconceivable compassion of the Lord, and the blessedness of this condition.