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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.
2. Adams closing with God in the performance of this Covenant, was in this; That he did imitate the Lord in the manner of his Work, for that was the excellency of his Image, to work as God had wrought.
To do, not what God requited only, but to will Gods Will, that is, to meet with him, and to concur with him in the Act of his Will: As the Clock doth with the Sun; at the point of such an hour, when the Sun goes twelve, it strikes twelve; or as ye have heard, sometimes two Clocks meet, and melt into the same stroke at an instant.
To do, not what God requited only, but to wil Gods Wil, that is, to meet with him, and to concur with him in the Act of his Will: As the Clock doth with the Sun; at the point of such an hour, when the Sun goes twelve, it strikes twelve; or as ye have heard, somtimes two Clocks meet, and melt into the same stroak at an instant.
To will as he, love as he, delight as he. Make my heart one with thee, Psal. 86.11. Acts, 13.22. Col. 4.12.
To wil as he, love as he, delight as he. Make my heart one with thee, Psal. 86.11. Acts, 13.22. Col. 4.12.