A44344:1427
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.
So the Understanding is not the cause of Teaching, for that may be where no teaching is: but Teaching, rectifying the Knowledge, is the cause why Knowledge comes to be rectified. So that Phrase; No man knows the Son, but he to whom the Father will reveal him; and no man knows the Father, but he to whom the Son will reveal him. No man knows what the rectifying of the Knowledge is, but he who hath his Knowledge rectified. And this is to be attended, according to the Second Person in the Deity; for it's true both ways, as well of the Father, who was never incarnate, as of the Son, who was.
So the Understanding is not the cause of Teaching, for that may be where no teaching is: but Teaching, rectifying the Knowledg, is the cause why Knowledg comes to be rectified. So that Phrase; No man knows the Son, but he to whom the Father will reveal him; and no man knows the Father, but he to whom the Son will reveal him. No man knows what the rectifying of the Knowledg is, but he who hath his Knowledg rectified. And this is to be attended, according to the Second Person in the Deity; for it's true both waies, as wel of the Father, who was never incarnate, as of the Son, who was.
3. Eyes and owns the Impression, and the Imprinter ⟨p. 427⟩of it in an especial manner: John 14.9. He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also. Not he that saw him with his Bodily Eyes, or saw only the external, and visible, bodily presence of our Saviour: but he that saw him as a Son, he would own the Father also, as expressing the lively resemblance of his Father, It answers so fully in all things. As we see in Sensitive Creatures, the young can own the Dam, by the scent, smell, or bleating: There is something of their own there.
3. Eyes and owns the Impression, and the Imprinter ⟨p. 427⟩