A44344:1265
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.
Some Needle-headed men, who are sharp, and Eagle-sighted ⟨p. 386⟩in the search of Secrets, they have conceived, and concluded; That this Commutative Justice cannot be attributed to God. For they imagine it would cast some kind of disparagement and imperfection upon the Majesty of the Almighty.
1. That God should be bound, and become a Debtor to the Creature.
2. Where Commutative Justice is, there one may receive something from another, as well as give something to another.
2. Where Commutative Justice is, there one may receive somthing from another, as wel as give somthing to another.
With this I will not now meddle, because it is not the special intent of the place. However, I confess the subtlety of the Conceit, will not easily satisfy my Apprehension. For I see no more disparagement put upon God to be bound by the Goodness of his Nature, than to be bound by his free Prome. He is Debtor to his own will in the one, as to his Nature in the other. Nor do Iee what prejudice is done to the Sovereignty of Gods Will, and absolute Dominion, to say, The goodness of his Will, cannot go cross to his Justice, then it cannot go cross to his infinite Wisdom, and Prudence, which all grant. Besides, Justice is exercised according to the Nature of that Commerce and Intercourse which is betwixt the Parties with whom it is exercised.