A44344:1060
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.
Because this glorious Power is executed by him, as Man now ascending and sitting in Heaven: So that his Man-hood doth concur, as an Instrument working with his God-head, in the administration of it, John, 5.27. The Father judgeth no man, but hath given all power to the Son, to execute Judgment, in as much as he is the Son of Man, that is, Because the Humane Nature is assumed into personal Union, and therein he hath satisfied Divine Justice, and so purchased Redemption, and so all the power, as that being the only way, by which this Redemption purchased, comes to be applied to the Saints.
Because this glorious Power is executed by him, as Man now ascending and sitting in Heaven: So that his Man-hood doth concur, as an Instrument working with his God-head, in the administration of it, John, 5.27. The Father judgeth no man, but hath given all power to the Son, to execute Judgment, in as much as he is the Son of Man, that is, Because the Humane Nature is assumed into personal Union, and therein he hath satisfied Divine Justice, and so purchased Redemption, and so al the power, as that being the only way, by which this Redemption purchased, comes to be applied to the Saints.
III. Wherein this Glory consists, which is thus attributed to the Person of our Saviour?
III. Wherein this Glory consists, which is thus attributed to the Person of our Savior?
Answ. For the right understanding of this Third Particular, wherein the pith, and life of the Point lies, This is a Rule that must be premised, and carefully carried along with us in our thoughts, as that which will guide through the following Explication, namely, That Glory is here to be attended in the several Branches of it, which the Lord Christ did lay aside by voluntary Dispensation, out of his own free will, and mutual Agreement with God the Father, Glorify me with the Glory I had with thee.