A44344:1318
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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2. That God the Father should be the Father of Christ, as God-Man, and in Faithfulness dispense Fatherly love to any of his. It exceeds the reach of all Humane Reason, and had it not been revealed in the Scriptures, it could never have been apprehended by the improvement of the best abilities of men and Angels. 1 Cor. 1.20. When the world in the Wisdom of God knew not God (that is, by the Wisdom that he had left imprinted on the works of creation and providence, they could not know God in Christ, nor the way of his dispensation therein. It pleased God the foolishness of ⟨p. 399⟩Preaching to save them that believe: By that which the world calls foolishness. For the Cross of Christ is foolishness to the Grecian, and a stumbling Block to the Jew.
2. That God the Father should be the Father of Christ, as God-Man, and in Faithfulness dispense Fatherly love to any of his. It exceeds the reach of al Humane Reason, and had it not been revealed in the Scriptures, it could never have been apprehended by the improvement of the best abilities of men and Angels. 1 Cor. 1.20. When the world in the Wisdom of God knew not God (that is, by the Wisdom that he had left imprinted on the works of creation and providence, they could not know God in Christ, nor the way of his dispensation therein. It pleased God the foolishness of ⟨p. 399⟩Preaching to save them that bel•eve: By that which the world cals foolishness. For the Cross of Christ is foolishness to the Grecian, and a stumbling Block to the Jew.
3. Though it doth exceed the reach of reason to find this, or Fathom this, being improved to the highest pitch, Yet after it is revealed and dispensed with plainness out of the word, The reason of a carnal man may yield assent thereto, and by force of Argument be constrained to submit to the convincing Evidence thereof: for its above reason, but not against reason. Its beyond the reach of reason to Fathom, but its not Cross to the rule of right reason, but it may, and will confess it. For its a staple truth, for ever to be held. There is nothing in the Nature of God, or the actions of God, that can be contrary to the Wisdom of God (for then God should be contrary to himself, which is assuredly blasphemous to think) and certain it is, the rule of right reason is a beam of Gods blessed Wisdom, which he can no more Cross, than in truth he can be Cross or contrary to himself. Therefore Paul calls it Wisdom in the greatest Eminency.