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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
Verse continued 23 › God the Father loveth the Faithful, as he loveth Jesus Christ.
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.
1. To discern wherein this Love appears, we shall follow it in these Particulars, by which Love is in a special manner made known, as before,
1. To discern wherein this Love appears, we shal follow it in these Particulars, by which Love is in a special manner made known, as before,
Love of Union, Complacence, Benevolence. Love Desires Union to the thing Rests contented with it, Desires the good of the thing beloved
Love of Ʋnion, Complacence, Benevolence. Love Desires Union to the thing Rests contented with it, Desires the good of the thing beloved
1. God loves his Saints with a Love of Union: that's thus conceived: God the Father brings the Faithful into a nearer Union with himself, and Christ, than any Creature by any ability, or excellency received by Creation, could ever be capable of, or could ever attain unto.
1. God loves his Saints with a Love of Ʋnion: that's thus conceived: God the Father brings the Faithful into a neerer Ʋnion with himself, and Christ, than any Creature by any ability, or excellency received by Creation, could ever be capable of, or could ever attain unto.