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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. 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.
And this will appear, if we compare the surpassing excellency of this Union, and the intimate nearness, which every Believer hath with God in the Covenant of Grace, with that which Adam could attain unto by the Covenant of Works. Had Adam stood, and attained the utmost perfection, it was possible for him to be made partaker of, by the improvement of the Spiritual Stock of Grace bestowed upon him: The utmost of all his happiness had been confined within this compass. 1. A man ⟨p. 159⟩by the Principle of Grate, was f•• to close with God, and perform the Covenant made betwixt God and him.
And this wil appear, if we compare the surpassing excellency of this Union, and the intimate neerness, which every Beleever hath with God in the Covenant of Grace, with that which Adam could attain unto by the Covenant of Works. Had Adam stood, and attained the utmost perfection, it was possible for him to be made partaker of, by the improvement of the Spiritual Stock of Grace bestowed upon him: The utmost of al his happiness had been confined within this compass. 1. A man ⟨p. 159⟩by the Principle of Grate, was f•• to close with God, and perform the Covenant made betwixt God and him.