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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.
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, 1 Cor. 6.17. and this is beyond the compass of all that sufficiency, and excellency God implanted in Adam. The Spirit of the Lord Jesus, that carried the Soul to the Father and Christ, closeth the •oul with the Spirit of the Father and Christ. By the Spirit from the Father and Christ, we close with the Spirit in Christ, and the Father. If the Spirit which raised Christ from the dead, be in you, Rom. 8.11. As by the same Spirit of the Lord, 2 Cor. 3.18. Adam had Supernatural Grace, but this •s more than Supernatural; for that was not able to incorporate the Soul into Christ. The Lord by his Eternal Spirit plucks him from his sin, carries him to himself, and pu•s him under the power of the Spirit of the Second Adam. As the first Adam, by natural Generation, turns the Soul from God to Sin, puts it under the right, and rule of the perverted mutability, or disobedience and curse of the first Adam.