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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.
2. It's the Nature of Love, to take full content, and complacence in the thing beloved: and so the Father doth in his Son, after an unspeakable manner, takes an infinite fullness of soul-pleasing satisfaction; so that before all Creatures were, he lacketh nothing, and he spent his whole thoughts in gazing upon the through concurrence of all unspeakable excellencies in the Lord Jesus, Prov. 8.30. I was daily his delight. It was his constant, and continued Exercise, the full employment of his blessed Majesty, to fill himself with the fellowship, and familiarity of his Son.
2. It's the Nature of Love, to take ful content, and complacence in the thing beloved: and so the Father doth in his Son, after an unspeakable manner, takes an infinite fulness of soul-pleasing satisfaction; so that before al Creatures were, he lacketh nothing, and he spent his whol thoughts in gazing upon the through concurrence of al unspeakable excellencies in the Lord Jesus, Prov. 8.30. I was dayly his delight. It was his constant, and continued Exercise, the ful imployment of his blessed Majesty, to fil himself with the fellowship, and familiarity of his Son.
When the Atheist enquires what God did, before the World, if the World was not Eternal? Answ. He was sporting himself with the unconceivable complacency, and ravishing contents of his well-beloved Son, the Lord of Glory. So that nothing was wanting, while he enjoyed him; nothing could be added, while he possesseth him.
When the Atheist enquires what God did, before the World, if the World was not Eternal? Answ. He was sporting himself with the unconceivable complacency, and ravishing contents of his wel-beloved Son, the Lord of Glory. So that nothing was wanting, while he enjoyed him; nothing could be added, while he possesseth him.