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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.
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.
They are said to ascend into Heavenly places, to sit with Christ, to judg the world, yea all enemies to be put under feet. Yea when the Kingdom shall be given up by our Saviour, no further dispensation in any outward means. 1 Cor. 15.28. God the Father shall be all in all, But in the infinite expressions of the riches of all glorious Grace upon the man Christ Jesus, and in and through him, upon them.
They are said to ascend into Heavenly places, to sit with Christ, to judg the world, yea al enemies to be put under feet. Yea when the Kingdom shal be given up by our Savior, no further dispensation in any outward means. 1 Cor. 15.28. God the Father shal be all in all, But in the infinite expressions of the riches of al glorious Grace upon the man Christ Jesus, and in and through him, upon them.
God the Father hath taken the Lord Christ into nearest union with himself. Taken unconceivable content in him. Advanced him to infinite glory with himself. The faithful next to Christ, they are in a like manner united to God, as Jesus, In like manner accepted, as Jesus, Advanced as Jesus.