A44344:1398
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.
1. How Christ as Second Person is said to kn•w the Father. 2. How as Man becomes to share in this knowledge. 3. The Reason of it.
1. How Christ as Second Person is said to kn•w the Father. 2. How as Man becomes to share in this knowledg. 3. The Reason of it.
To the First.
For the right apprehending, how the Second Person may in a peculiar manner be said to know the Father, we must conceive that the knowledge of Christ, as Second person, may be attended upon a double consideration, or ground.
For the right apprehending, how the Second Person may in a peculiar manner be said to know the Father, we must conceive that the knowledg of Christ, as Second person, may be attended upon a double consideration, or ground.
1. As it Issues from the understanding of the God-Head. For God, according to the expression of the Scripture, being a Spirit, & of all other most excellent, and therefore reasonable, he must have the most excellent faculties: and therefore understanding and will. For what is most eminent, that we have allowance, from the rule, to believe, that it doth belong to the God-Head, and we may so conceive of it.