A44344:1062
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
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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.
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 wil 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 wil, and mutual Agreement with God the Father, Glorifie me with the Glory I had with thee.
That which was laid aside by him, that may be taken up again, and given to him, by the same Agreement.
And hence all those infinite Excellencies that are in God, the absolute might of Sovereignty over the Creature, is not properly any part of Glory, unto which he was exalted. Because this is a property of the Divine ⟨p. 329⟩Nature, and so doth necessarily appertain to every person that hath this Nature, as necessarily as to be God. This he had of his own, and this could not be given to him, nor laid aside by him. And this was the first signification of glory before mentioned. But our Saviour by voluntary dispensation did lay aside the right of present-taking Dominion, and exercising Dominion, over every creature in that Nature he did assume. And hence Satan and his instruments, he in and by them, did not only assault our Saviour by their outrages and temptations, but by violence of power did out-bid, and over-bear him for the present. Thus, as it were with a violent hand, he carried him into the Wilderness, and set him upon a Pinnacle of the Temple: yea not only assaulted, but prevailed and had the better for the present, brought him to his death, and held him captive in the grave by the space of three days: Our Saviour by agreement with God the Father laying aside and ceasing his own right of taking and exercise dominion over Devils, and men, and creatures: but giving way hereunto by agreement with God the Father for the while, that the work of our Redemption was to be accomplished. Hence are these passages, This is your hour and the power of darkness.