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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.
A finite sin committed against an infinite being, infinitely offends. A finite suffering infinitely satisfies; because the person was infinite that bore it. God is infinitely well pleased. Because from the worth of his ⟨p. 169⟩person, and the virtue of his Merit, he hath laid down full Satisfaction.
A finite sin committed against an infinite being, infinitely offends. A finite suffering infinitely satisfies; because the person was infinite that bore it. God is infinitely wel pleased. Because from the worth of his ⟨p. 169⟩person, and the vertue of his Merit, he hath laid down ful Satisfaction.
But he is infinitely pleased with the Faithful by way of imputation, because the fruit of that Merit, proceeding from such a person, is accounted theirs.
God loves the faithful with the love of Benevolence, he wisheth the like good to them, procures a like good for them, as for Christ. He makes them sharers with him in Christ-like privileges. He only hath the preeminence, and they the second place.
God loves the faithful with the love of Benevolence, he wisheth the like good to them, procures a like good for them, as for Christ. He makes them sharers with him in Christ-like priviledges. He only hath the preheminence, and they the second place.