A44344:1124
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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Nor yet is this meaning so fully suitable to the sense of the place and force of the Argument. For glory was given and doth appertain to our Saviour, not as man alone, but as the Second person in the glorious Trinity as we opened, and gave in undeniable evidence thereof in the former Doctrine. As our Saviour was the subject of this glory, which was given, so is he the subject of that love, which gives it.
Nor yet is this meaning so fully suitable to the sense of the place and force of the Argument. For glory was given and doth appertain to our Savior, not as man alone, but as the Second person in the glorious Trinity as we opened, and gave in undeniable evidence thereof in the former Doctrine. As our Savior was the subject of this glory, which was given, so is he the subject of that love, which gives it.
But that Election, properly so termed, should be attributed to Christ, as the second person, I do not remember that any Scripture evidenceth. Therefore in the.
Third and last place, I do conceive, that this love is attributed to the Father, in a personal regard, and for the manner of it, it doth in a proper and peculiar sort, appertain to him, and Issues from that inward and intimate relation, that is betwixt the Father and the Son. The Father gives all to the Son, as Son. The Son returns all to the Father, as Father. Nor a Father, because God, but because he hath a Son. Not Son. Because God. But because he hath a Father. And hence it is, they are said to have an In-being each in other. Believest thou, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father? Joh. 14.8, 9. Thou in me, and I in thee, that they may be one, as we are one. And for that reason it is, the Father is said, To dwell in Christ, the second person.