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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
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.
The faithful receiving this impression, as from the Father by Christ they return it wholly and perfectly to the Father in and through Christ. Namely, The whole man, under their impression of the begetting Spirit of the second Adam, it wholly fastens upon God in Christ and so leaves it self wholly to be ac•ed by the influence thereof, and holds out the excellency thereof; that is, not I, but Christ; not by my power and might, but by the power of the might of Christ. Thus the Sinner is wholly beyond the covenant of works. So that the faithful hath nothing of himself, doth nothing from himself, or for himself. As Christ the Son doth nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. Joh. 5.19. But God in Christ doth all for himself in man, man doth it not: receives all himself by man, man can take nothing.
The faithful receiving this impression, as from the Father by Christ they return it wholly and perfectly to the Father in and through Christ. Namely, The whol man, under their impression of the begetting Spirit of the second Adam, it wholly fastens upon God in Christ and so leaves it self wholly to be ac•ed by the influence thereof, and holds out the excellency thereof; that is, not I, but Christ; not by my power and might, but by the power of the might of Christ. Thus the Sinner is wholly beyond the covenant of works. So that the faithful hath nothing of himself, doth nothing from himself, or for himself. As Christ the Son doth nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. Joh. 5.19. But God in Christ doth al for himself in man, man doth it not: receives al himself by man, man can take nothing.
This I said, was the leaving of the Soul under the influence of the spirit, not under a principle of Grace, or sanctification, for that comes after, is there, is acted and ⟨p. 167⟩