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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.
Reas. 1. Taken from the excellency of his Divine Nature, which must be suited with a place and throne answerable to the dignity and sovereignty thereof. For however it pleased the Lord, out of his infinite love, to step out of the Chair of Estate, to visit this inferior world, to be included in the Womb of a Virgin, and to take his progress into these lowermost parts of the Earth: yet it carried no proportion, in point of honour, that he should take up his abode there, but to re••rn again to the Royal Palace of state. Heaven is my throne, and the Earth is my footstool. In reason he may stoop to his footstool and tread upon it, but to stay there, and to make it the chief place and habitation, where his heavenly majesty should dwell, It suited not the excellency of his Divine Nature. This is that which the Apostle intimates to be the ground of the difference between the advancement of the posterity of the second Adam above the first. The Faithful shall be raised and Translated from Earth to Heaven: whereas, ad Adam stood in Paradise, he and his posterity had enjoyed an earthly paradise, that is, God there only; and the reason is rendered from the point in hand. 2 Cor. 15.45. The first man was a living Soul; able to beget one like himself, by a natural course of generation. But the second Adam was a quickening Spirit, able to ⟨p. 218⟩give life to the dead, and so raise up them from the Grave, and to make them spiritual Bodies, which was beyond the power of Adam.
Reas. 1. Taken from the excellency of his Divine Nature, which must be suited with a place and throne answerable to the dignity and soveraignty thereof. For however it pleased the Lord, out of his infinite love, to step out of the Chair of Estate, to visite this inferior world, to be included in the Womb of a Virgin, and to take his progress into these lowermost parts of the Earth: yet it carried no proportion, in point of honor, that he should take up his abode there, but to re••rn again to the Royal Palace of state. Heaven is my throne, and the Earth is my footstool. In reason he may stoop to his footstool and tread upon it, but to stay there, and to make it the chief place and habitation, where his heavenly majesty should dwel, It suited not the excellency of his Divine Nature. This is that which the Apostle intimates to be the ground of the difference between the advancment of the posterity of the second Adam above the first. The Faithful shal be raised and Translated from Earth to Heaven: whereas, ad Adam stood in Paradise, he and his posterity had injoyed an earthly paradise, that is, God there only; and the reason is rendred from the point in hand. 2 Cor. 15.45. The first man was a living Soul; able to beget one like himself, by a natural course of generation. But the second Adam was a quickning Spirit, able to