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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.
We shall better understand this, if we a little consider the imperfection of this Oneness, and wherein it appears: the full removal of those weaknesses will be the perfecting of this privilege in our Souls.
We shall better understand this, if we a little consider the imperfection of this Oneness, and wherein it appears: the ful removal of those weaknesses wil be the perfecting of this priviledg in our Souls.
This imperfection lies in three things.
1. In the feebleness and unsoundness of our spirit when we do not abide in the Lord, we do out leave our selves under the power and stream of the Spirit of promise, in and through which, all spiritual virtue is dispensed, and the influence of the Spirit is conveyed unto us. But either we are crowded and thrust off, by the strength and violence of temptation, which as violent and boisterous winds, and raging waves, force the Vessel out of the Channel, carries at upon the shore and shelves, where it is set on ground, if not split.
1. In the feebleness and unsoundness of our spirit when we do not abide in the Lord, we do out leave our selves under the power and stream of the Spirit of promise, in and through which, al spiritual vertue is dispensed, and the influence of the Spirit is conveyed unto us. But either we are crowded and thrust off, by the strength and violence of temptation, which as violent and boisterous winds, and raging waves, force the Vessel out of the Channel, carries at upon the shore and shelves, where it is set on ground, if not split.