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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.
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.
But every Sa•• of God, that by his Spirit, is carried to him, he is made one with Christ in an unspeakable manner.
1. The Soul is pitched immediately upon the Deity, and so the Father, Son, and Holy. Ghost; and in the most intimate Union that can be imagined. Not as the Branches to the Vine, John, 15.1. nor as the Members to the Head, Eph. 1.22. but yet nearer, they are bone of his bone, and fl•sh of his flesh, and that is nearer than to be Members to a Head, Eph. 5. and 30.32. yea, are one Spirit •ith him,