A44344:1110
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.
The first Original, from whence this, so great and unconceivable Glory proceeds, It is, from the Love of the Father, towards our Saviour, his blessed Son. And that Love is not of yesterday, nor of late, or in this last Age of the World occasioned; but it issues out of his ancient and everlasting Lover, wherewith he embraced ⟨p. 344⟩the Lord Jesus, before the World was; and that not only finished and brought to perfection, but before the first corner stone, before the Foundation thereof was laid.
The first Original, from whence this, so great and unconceivable Glory proceeds, It is, from the Love of the Father, towards our Savior, his blessed Son. And that Love is not of yesterday, nor of late, or in this last Age of the World occasioned; but it issues out of his antient and everlasting Lover, wherewith he imbraced ⟨p. 344⟩the Lord Jesus, before the World was; and that not only finished and brought to perfection, but before the first corner stone, before the Foundation thereof was laid.
I will not give way to any curious Speculation; but I believe it's true, and I suppose it's suitable to the meaning of the words, That the Father laid the Foundation of the Love of his Son in his own heart and thoughts, in order of Nature, before in his everlasting purpose he laid out in his contrivement, the first Pillars and Principles, upon which the World was founded. He understands himself directly, all other; Quatenus sui imaginem gerunt. So Wisdom seems to speak, Prov. 8.22. He possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his Works of old. The first beginning of Gods way, is to understand himself.
I wil not give way to any curious Speculation; but I beleeve it's true, and I suppose it's suitable to the meaning of the words, That the Father laid the Foundation of the Love of his Son in his own heart and thoughts, in order of Nature, before in his everlasting purpose he laid out in his contrivement, the first Pillars and Principles, upon which the World was founded. He understands himself directly, al other; Quatenus sui imaginem gerunt. So Wisdom seems to speak,