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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.
I in them. Christ is by his Spiritual Presence in a special manner in the Faithful.
This was signified to the Church of the Jews in the wilderness, when the Ark, the Type of the presence of our Saviour, encamped in the midst of all the tribes of Israel, to watch over them, when they rested. Was a Pillar of cloud and fire to go before them, for special guidance, when they arose and marched in their travel and this Moses prized so highly, That unless he went with them, he would not go into Canaan, the land of promise:
This was signified to the Church of the Jews in the wilderness, when the Arke, the Type of the presence of our Savior, incamped in the midst of all the tribes of Israel, to watch over them, when they rested. Was a Pillar of cloud and fire to go before them, for special guidance, when they arose and marched in their travel and this Moses prized so highly, That unless he went with them, he would not go into Canaan, the land of promise:
The presence of Christ is better than the Land of promise. Exod. 33.15. If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. Therefore our Saviour is said to dwell between the Cherubims and there to give his Oracles, his Answer to his people. Isa. 37.16