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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.
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.
Nor yet can the very flesh of our Savior in it self considered be truly availeable to purchase any spiritual good or communicate any spiritual vertue.
Yet this is certain and for ever to be observed, that the humane nature taken with the deity, and in virtue of the deity, puts forth a power in the expression of his spiritual presence; whereof more anon.
Yet this is certain and for ever to be observed, that the humane nature taken with the deity, and in vertue of the deity, puts forth a power in the expression of his spritual presence; whereof more anon.
And the Lord Christ is thus spiritually present in his Church, as a head may be truly said to be really and rventually in the body. For this is the office of our Saviour and that in a proper and peculiar manner. He is said to be the Head of his Church, neither the Father nor the Holy Ghost. The Father is the Father of the Church: and Holy Spirit the Comforter of the Church: but Christ hath this impropriate in him, that He is the Head. Eph. 4.15. Grow up in •o him in all things ⟨p. 114⟩which is the head, even Christ. And Chap. 5.23. He is the head of the Church, and the Saviour of the body.
And the Lord Christ is thus spiritually present in his Church, as a head may be truly said to be really and rventually in the body. For this is the office of our Savior and that in a proper and peculiar manner. He is said to be the Head of his Church, neither the Father nor the Holy Ghost. The Father is the Father of the Church: and Holy Spirit the Comfortēr of the Church: but Christ hath this impropriate in him, that He is the Head.