A44344:598
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.
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.
Certain it is, the bodily presence of our Saviour is not here attended according to the conceit of the Capernaites, and the Papists at this day: as though it were possible for the very flesh of our Saviour to be in all places, or in many places, according to the administrations of the ordinances, which signify or represent the same.
Certain it is, the bodily presence of our Savior is not here attended according to the conceit of the Capernaites, and the Papists at this day: as though it were possible for the very flesh of our Savior to be in al places, or in many places, according to the administrations of the ordinances, which signify or represent the same.
Nor yet can the very flesh of our Saviour in it self considered be truly available to purchase any spiritual good or communicate any spiritual virtue.