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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.
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. 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.
2. That which brings us nearer unto God, and makes us to receive more from him, that is most excellent, and other things must be subordinate thereunto.
2. That which brings us neerer unto God, and makes us to receive more from him, that is most excellent, and other things must be subordinate thereunto.
But this unity of relation doth so.