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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.
The In-being or existence of the Father in the Son, is the first rise, whence the unity of the faithful with the Father and the Son comes to be perfected.
Hither our Saviour ascends, and here he stays, Leads us to the Well-Head, and fountain, whence our spiritual welfare, and everlasting good Issues. And this is the highest of all, and higher we cannot go; beyond this visible world, and all creatures therein, even to Heaven, and in Heaven, above Angels to God, and in the God-Head, to the first original in the glorious and blessed Trinity, and the first act in that origination.
Hither our Savior ascends, and here he staies, Leads us to the Well-Head, and fountain, whence our spiritual wellface, and everlasting good Issues. And this is the highest of al, and higher we cannot go; beyond this visible world, and al creatures therein, even to Heaven, and in Heaven, above Angels to God, and in the God-Head, to the first original in the glorious and blessed Trinity, and the first act in that origination.
To this accords that of the Apostle, each place adds mutual light unto the other. Col. 3.3. We are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God. Christ is the Treasurer, but the Father is the Author. Christ is the keeper, but the Father is the first Appointer thereof. For so you must understand the Name God, not essentially, but personally, being put in opposition and reference unto Christ, our life is hid with Christ, but Christ, and life, and all is in God, in the Father. Upon this ground it is, and to the like purpose, that the Apostle carries the hearts of the Corinthians in the work of their calling unto this consideration, as that, wherein the lowest part of the foundation of our comfort lies,