A44344:1126
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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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. Joh. 14.10. And that cannot in any propriety of speech be said of the Essence, because that the person dwells not in the Essence. For relations make no impression in the subject.
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 al to the Son, as Son. The Son returnes al 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. Beleevest 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 dwel in Christ, the second person. Joh. 14.10. And that cannot in any propriety of speech be said of the Essence, because that the person dwels not in the Essence. For relations make no impression in the subject.