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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.
Now that the shine of this Impression must return again upon it self, and look back to the impression, is thus made plain, by setting a dis-similitude by it. When the operative, active Wisdom of God falls upon nothing; purposing to make a World, it breaks through that nothing, and brings forth an effect, a Creature out of it, stinted with bounds of being, and time; it's both finite, and temporary, hath a beginning of time, and may have an end.
Now that the shine of this Impression must return again upon it self, and look back to the impression, is thus made plain, by setting a dis-similitude by it. When the operative, active Wisdom of God fals upon nothing; purposing to make a VVorld, it breaks through that nothing, and brings forth an effect, a Creature out of it, stinted with bounds of being, and time; it's both finite, and temporary, hath a beginning of time, and may have an end.
But this Understanding falling upon the God-head, which is absolutely first, and infinite, it cannot break through, make an effect, or give this the Being of a Creature, being infinite, and first-being.
The Act of Gods Wisdom falls upon that as his Object, and returns again upon it self, and so doth conceive, and hath an Image of it self conceived, an engraven Character from this Impression returned by resemblance upon the Impression.
The Act of Gods Wisdom fals upon that as his Object, and returns again upon it self, and so doth conceive, and hath an Image of it self conceived, an engraven Character from this Impression returned by resemblance upon the Impression.