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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 believers are not in their own hands, nor at their own finding, but kept in the hand of Christ, and live ⟨p. 161⟩merely and immediately upon dependence: have all their Store and Stock in the hand of the Lord Jesus, are brought, and taken into fellowship with the Father, and his Son, and thence fetch all that daily quickening, and efficacious influence of the Favour and presence of the Lord, to carry them out to all the Duties they do. Thus the Apostle, Gal. 2.20. I live not, but Christ lives in me, and that I do now live. The Fountain of Life, is not firstly in himself. Adam might have said, I live by the Power and Principle of Grace received, and in which I was created, and thereby I have pleased God, and according to the Covenant of Works, may challenge life and happiness.
But beleevers are not in their own hands, nor at their own finding, but kept in the hand of Christ, and live ⟨p. 161⟩meerly and immediately upon dependance: have all their Store and Stock in the hand of the Lord Jesus, are brought, and taken into fellowship with the Father, and his Son, and thence fetch al that dayly quickening, and efficacious influence of the Favor and presence of the Lord, to carry them out to al the Duties they do. Thus the Apostle, Gal. 2.20. I live not, but Christ lives in me, and that I do now live. The Fountain of Life, is not firstly in himself. Adam might have said, I live by the Power and Principle of Grace received, and in which I was created, and thereby I have pleased God, and according to the Covenant of Works, may challenge life and happiness.
But Paul in the Person of all believing sinners, professeth, that, I live not; Christ hath brought me to himself, made me one with himself, that he might be all in all to me, and work all by me. We are dead, and our Life is hid with Christ in God. Christ is the Keeper of our Life; the Father the Author of it.