A44344:1413
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.
The Father by understanding conceives an Image: the Son is the Image conceived. As a man is not a Father, because he is a man, but because he begets a Son. A man is not a Son, because he is a man, but because he is begotten of a Father.
So the God-Head is not a Father, because God-Head, but because it conceives an Image of it self. The Son is not a Son, because God, but because he is conceived of another who did conceive. This is the meaning of the Apostle. The words are marvellous pat and Pithy and carry weight with them, but answer exactly to the thing in Hand. Hebr. 1.3. Christ as the second person is called, The Engraven Form or Character of the Fathers Person. The word signifies to engrave, and implies an Image of a thing, not feigned only in our mind and Imagination, nor, vanishing and changing, as in a representation in a Glass, as the form of the face th•re. But a form or resemblance Engraven, Cut, or instamped on Brass or Wood, which hath stability & permanency with it. As Beza in Locum.
So the God-Head is not a Father, because God-Head, but because it conceives an Image of it self. The Son is not a Son, because God, but because he is conceived of another who did conceive. This is the meaning of the Apostle. The words are marvailous pat and Pithy and carry wieght with them, but answer exactly to the thing in Hand. Hebr. 1.3. Christ as the second person is called, The Ingraven Form or Character of the Fathers Person. The word signifies to ingrave, and implies an Image of a thing, not feigned only in our mind and Imagination, nor, vanishing and changing, as in a representation in a Glass, as the form of the face th•re. But a form or resemblance Ingraven, Cut, or instamped on Brass or Wood, which hath stability & permanency with it. As Beza in Locum.