A44344:596
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.
Christ, God and Man is our spiritual good, otherwise he is not, nay cannot be digested for the spiritual refreshing of the faithful soul.
2. What kind of presence this is.
Answer. In the words of the doctrine, it is a spiritual presence, not carnal or corporal; in so much, that the Apostle if he had known Christ after the flesh, yet he knows him no more after that manner. 2. Cor. 5.16. For the flesh profits nothing, says our Saviour; the words I speak, are spirit and life. John. 6.63.
Answer. In the words of the doctrine, it is a spiritual presence, not carnal or corporal; in so much, that the Apostle if he had known Christ after the flesh, yet he knowes him no more after that manner. 2. Cor. 5.16. For the flesh profits nothing, sayes our Savior; the words I speak, are spirit and life. John. 6.63.