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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.
View this Love wistly, and warm thy heart with it, and thou shalt not need to complain of barrenness, or emptiness, thou shalt be full of Grace, not have a scant measure; thou shalt be full of Wisdom, and Meekness, Patience, Holiness, &c. Nay, full of the fullness, nay, of all the fullness of Godlike Grace: no kind of Grace, no Excellency in any kind, that suits the Station and Condition thou dost obtain in the Body of Christ, but thou shalt be possessed of it.
View this Love wistly, and warm thy heart with it, and thou shalt not need to complain of barrenness, or emptiness, thou shalt be ful of Grace, not have a scant measure; thou shalt be ful of Wisdom, and Meekness, Patience, Holiness, &c. Nay, ful of the fulness, nay, of al the fulness of Godlike Grace: no kind of Grace, no Excellency in any kind, that suits the Station and Condition thou dost obtain in the Body of Christ, but thou shalt be possessed of it.
How the knowledge of this Love brings in this fullness, it's not now a place to enquire, only the Doctrine now delivered, will lead us by the hand to some further Light in this Work.
How the knowledg of this Love brings in this fulness, it's not now a place to enquire, only the Doctrine now delivered, wil lead us by the hand to some further Light in this Work.
While we know, that is, while we constantly attend to the Dispensation of Gods Love in Christ, begetting of us, as his adopted ones, by his Spirit to himself; while we experimentally find this, and so know it, and leave our hearts under the influence thereof, as of him, to receive all; as from him, to do all, we shall then be full.
While we know, that is, while we constantly attend to the Dispensation of Gods Love in Christ, begetting of us, as his adopted ones, by his Spirit to himself; while we experimentally find this, and so know it, and leave our hearts under the influence thereof, as of him, to receive al; as from him, to do al, we shal then be ful.