A44344:613
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
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3. He doth improve this power and the operation of the Spirit to close the Soul with himself; and to hold the bent of the heart towards him for ever. 1 Cor. 6.17. He that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
3. He doth improve this power and the operation of the Spirit to close the Soule with himself; and to hold the bent of the heart towards him for ever. 1 Cor. 6.17. He that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit.
As by his spirit he sanctified our Nature and took it into personal union with himself and gave in subsistence, which of it self it had not, nor could attain: So by the operation of his Spirit he prepares the Soul for himself, carries it in the promise to himself, and acts it upon himself: The Soul moved by the virtue of the Spirit, moves to and stays upon the Lord Christ. As in the Echo, the Air moved by the voice, in such manner returns the same voice, by virtue of its own motion. Come unto me. I come, Lord. And not only carries and closeth the Soul with himself, but holds it in this holy bent to himself that way, Christ-ward, Heaven-ward.
As by his spirit he sanctified our Nature and took it into personal union with himself and gave in subsistence, which of it self it had not, nor could attain: So by the operation of his Spirit he prepares the Soul for himself, carries it in the promise to himself, and acts it upon himself: The Soul moved by the vertue of the Spirit, moves to and staies upon the Lord Christ. As in the Eccho, the Air moved by the voice, in such manner returns the same voice, by vertue of its own motion. Come unto me. I come, Lord. And not only carries and closeth the Soul with himself, but holds it in this holy bent to himself that way, Christ-ward, Heaven-ward.