A44344:1409
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.
2. This knowledge is to be considered, according as it attends the manner of the work of the understanding, which carries a specialty of respect with it, in the act thereof, and so it may in a peculiar manner be affirmed of Father and Son, and in the several regards, appropriated unto either. The reason whereof we shall scan anon, as it comes in our way; when the understanding of the God-Head, by knowing it self, conceiveth an image of it self, makes an impress or engraven character of it self, which it ever eyes; and owns, this manner of knowing belongs to the Father, and thence Issues an especial manner of knowing the Father by and in the Son. As Joh. 10.15.
2. This knowledg is to be considered, according as it attends the manner of the work of the understanding, which carries a specialty of respect with it, in the act thereof, and so it may in a peculiar manner be affirmed of Father and Son, and in the several regards, appropriated unto either. The reason whereof we shal scan anon, as it comes in our way; when the understanding of the God-Head, by knowing it self, conceiveth an image of it self, makes an impress or engraven character of it self, which it ever eyes; and owns, this manner of knowing belongs to the Father, and thence Issues an especial manner of knowing the Father by and in the Son. As Joh. 10.15.
As the Father knows me, I know the Father. And that appears in a Three-fold act of the Son.
1. The Son takes the Impression of his Image. 2. Returns it. 3. Eyes and owns the Imprinter of it.