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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.
MR Hooker On the Seventeenth of John Being his Seventeenth Book, made in New-England.
THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
THE more eminent Matter of these Sermons, is our mystical Union with God and Christ; a Subject but rarely handled by Divines, and then but overly in comparison to what those other Benefits by Christ have been, that yet but flow from this, or do accompany it: So as any small advance of Light into this Mystery, is highly to be valued, specially from so ⟨image 3⟩good a Hand, or Heart rather, so deeply experienced, and acutely insighted, as was our Author.
THE more eminent Matter of these Sermons, is our mystical Union with God and Christ; a Subject but rarely handled by Divines, and then but overly in comparison to what those other Benefits by Christ have been, that yet but flow from this, or do accompany it: So as any smal advance of Light into this Mystery, is highly to be valued, specially from so ⟨image 3⟩good a Hand, or Heart rather, so deeply experienced, and acutely insighted, as was our Author.