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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.
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So that it is not any Power in Man, or Principle of Grace, whereby we come firstly to close with God: but the Spiritual Union of the Faithful, is of a higher or nearer Nature, than that it can at the first readily be apprehended; namely, not by the Power of Man, or Principle of Grace; for all this is but a Creature, never brought the Soul to God, or kept it with him.
So that it is not any Power in Man, or Principle of Grace, whereby we come firstly to close with God: but the Spiritual Union of the Faithful, is of a higher or neerer Nature, than that it can at the first readily be apprehended; namely, not by the Power of Man, or Principle of Grace; for al this is but a Creature, never brought the Soul to God, or kept it with him.
But the power of the Deity in Christ, by his Spirit, hath fitted me for himself, and hath carried me to himself, made me one Spirit with himself, doth all for himself in me, that he may receive all to himself from me, and I might wholly have such a desire, that all that we have may hold out his Excellency in all these his Dispensations, and so have nothing of my self, do nothing from my self, which excludes Works wholly. Here the Soul is compassed about with all the Power of Heaven; nothing but with the power of God in Christ. Whereas Adam, who did something of himself, from a Principle he had, ⟨p. 162⟩so he might have taken something to himself, he had whereof to rejoice. But God in this way and work, he doth all from himself by man, no man doth it: He receives all to himself from Man, Man must take nothing.
But the power of the Deity in Christ, by his Spirit, hath fitted me for himself, and hath carried me to himself, made me one Spirit with himself, doth al for himself in me, that he may receive al to himself from me, and I might wholly have such a desire, that al that we have may hold out his Excellency in al these his Dispensations, and so have nothing of my self, do nothing from my self, which excludes Works wholly. Here the Soul is compassed about with al the Power of Heaven; nothing but with the power of God in Christ. Whereas Adam, who did somting of himself, from a Principle he had,