A44344:1053
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.
But of this Glory, no mere Creature is capable: For it's such a glorious power which he possesseth, and which is here understood, whereby he subdues all things, even death, unto himself. Phil. 3. last.
But of this Glory, no meer Creature is capable: For it's such a glorious power which he possesseth, and which is here understood, whereby he subdues al things, even death, unto himself. Phil. 3. last.
2. This also is evident, by the Question which our Saviour Christ makes, and the Argument he brings for the evidencing and evincing this Sense, that indeed he was God as well as man, and that this Glory of his exaltation, ⟨p. 327⟩did in that behalf; belong to him, Matth. 22.42, 43. He asked the Pharisees, What think ye of Christ the Messiah, whose Son is he? They say unto him, the Son of David, that is, they looked at him, as mere man: Against which he thus reasons; How then doth David in spirit call him Lord? In Spirit, that is, by the dictate and direction of the Holy Ghost, as Mark, 12.36. The Lord, that is, God, said unto my Lord, that is, unto my Seed, which is my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine Enemies thy Footstool. Now if his Son, how is he his Lord?
2. This also is evident, by the Question which our Savior Christ makes, and the Argument he brings for the evidencing and evincing this Sense, that indeed he was God as wel as man, and that this Glory of his exaltation, ⟨p. 327⟩