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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.
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⟩preserved by this. For the spirit holds nor us only, but our Graces, quickens and keeps them. But a clinging about God in Christ, that he may act all in us and by us. Therefore the Apostle joins both these Eph. 3.16. Prays that we may be strengthened by the power of the spirit in▪ the inward man. The inward man, is the man of Sanctification. Now there is a power of his spirit, that gives strengthening virtue to that. This is that for Christ to abide in us and we in him. Joh. 15.
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⟩preserved by this. For the spirit holds nor us only, but our Graces, quickens and keeps them. But a clinging about God in Christ, that he may act al in us and by us. Therefore the Apostle joins both these Eph. 3.16. Praies that we may be strengthened by the power of the spirit in▪ the inward man. The inward man, is the man of Sanctification. Now there is a power of his spirit, that gives strengthening vertue to that. This is that for Christ to abide in us and we in him. Joh. 15.
As the Father abides in Christ, so Christ in the Father: so Christ abides in us, and we in him. Christ gives all, we receive and return all. Christ looks upon us by his spirit, we look wholly to Christ, or wholly to the influence of that spirit in Christ; hold out the power and virtue thereof, that it may leave impression of all virtues in us, preserve, perfect, quicken what it leaves. So that God is in Christ, and he as from the Father is in them. God out of his love begets his Son, gives the being of Son to him. Christ out of his love begets his, gives the being of adopted ones to them. Once more,