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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.
Answ. If we look at our Saviour merely and only as the second Person in the glorious. Trinity, God blessed for ever, not attending or considering his Human Nature, as he filleth Heaven and Earth with his presence, he then would have filled the hearts of the Sons of men in that manner, being present with them, as he is every where by his Omnipresence:
Answ. If we look at our Savior meerly and only as the second Person in the glorious. Trinity, God blessed for ever, not attending or considering his Human Nature, as he filleth Heaven and Earth with his presence, he then would have filled the hearts of the Sons of men in that manner, being present with them, as he is every where by his Omnipresence:
But the gracious & spiritual expression of his presence had never been communicated to Adams posterity: There was so great a distance, such and so strong opposition betwixt the corrupt and polluted nature of man, and the purity of the holy nature of the blessed God, that there was no possibility that ever there should be, any agreement and communion, while man continued in that corrupt condition. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Am. 3.3. Much less dwell together. Yea the Lord professeth, Psal. 5, 4. Wickedness shall not dwell with him, much less he in it. When his pure eyes cannot endure to behold iniquity with any approbation, he shall be thought to take up his abode there? No. What communion between light and darkness, Christ and Belial? that is, there is none, there can be none. Therefore we must look at Christ, as God-man, as he had taken our nature into union with him, and so in and by it, had made way for the communication of himself to his.
But the gracious & spiritual expression of his presence had never been communicated to Adams posterity: There was so great a distance, such and so strong opposition betwixt the corrupt and polluted nature of man, and the purity of the holy nature of the blessed God, that there was no possibility that ever there should be, any agreement and communion, while man continued in that corrupt condition. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Am. 3.3. Much less dwel together. Yea the Lord professeth,