A44344:831
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.
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,
As the Father abides in Christ, so Christ in the Father: so Christ abides in us, and we in him. Christ gives al, 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 vertue thereof, that it may leave impression of al vertues 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 adoped ones to them. Once more,
As Christ looks only towards the Father, as his Son begotten, as he receives so he returns. So the faithful, under the impression of the spirit of Christ, as his begotten and adopted ones, look towards him, leave their hearts with him, as of him, to receive all, as from him, to do all.
As Christ looks only towards the Father, as his Son begotten, as he receives so he returnes. So the faithful, under the impression of the spirit of Christ, as his begotten and adopted ones, look towards him, leave their hearts with him, as of him, to receive al, as from him, to do al.