A44344:94
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
Contents: The Contents of Mr. Hooker's seventeenth Book, made in New-England.
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.
Verse 23. I in them, and thou in me, &c. 109 The words opened ibid.
DOCT. Christ in special manner by his spiritual Presence, is in the Faithful Page 111 ⟨image 11⟩Three things here opened. 1 In what respect Christ is said to be in his Page 111 2 What kind of presence this is ibid. 3 After what manner communicated ibid. Use 1. Caution to all, especially to the wicked Page 117 Use 2. To desire the fellowship of the Faithful Page 118 Use 3. Trial of our selves. ib. Use 4. Shows the excellency of the Saints, in their meanest condition Page 122 Use 5. Matter of Comfort. Page 124 Use 6. Of Humiliation Page 125 Use 7. Of Admiration Page 126 Use 8. Of Exhortation ibid. 1 To be affected with the presence of such a Guest ibid. 2 To entertain him suitably Page 127 This is performed in four things ibid. Thou in me. 1 The Father is in the Son. Page 129 2 The subsistence of the Father in the Son, is the original whence the Saints come to be one with the Son, and the Father ibid. The Nature of this, is opened in three things Page 130 1 The ground whence this Inbeing proceeds ibid. 2 The ready way to apprehend the Nature of it rightly ib. 3 How it may be attended in our Saviour, as God and Man ibid. The first expressed in two Conclusions ibid. The second made good in four Particulars Page 131 Three things for Explication of the third Page 134 This manner of existing appears in the Humane Nature in a three-fold regard, Viz. Of Union. Mission. Operation. ib. The In-being of the Father in the Son, is the first rise whence the Unity of the faithful with the Father and the Son, is perfected. Page 137 The Doctrine opened ibid. 1 Recall what this oneness is. Page 139 2 How it's perfected ibid. This Imperfection lies in three things Page 140 1 In the unsoundness of our spirit ibid. 2 Crossness to the power of the Spirit Page 141 3 When the soul will join anything with Christ Page 142 ⟨image 11⟩Use 1. For Comfort Page 143 Use 2. For Exhortation Page 144
DOCT. Christ in special manner by his spiritual Presence, is in the Faithful Page 111