A44344:1431
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.
Answ. This Knowledge belongs firstly to the Son as Second Person; but to the Humane Nature so far, as the Relation of Son-ship leaves some impression, according to the Nature, and Condition thereof. So that the Second Person in the Trinity, is no other, nor acts any otherwise than he did in himself. But this manner of acting in the knowledge of the Father, appears in the Humane Nature, and leave• new impressions in an especial manner, and the Father also in, and by him. And that is done in regard of that Union, that the Humane Nature hath to the Second Person: For as we know, the Second Person takes the Humane Nature into personal Union with him, so that there is not two Sons, but one Son: and the Lord Christ remains the same Person after the Union, that he was before. And therefore being one and the same Person with the Son, he may be said to know the Father, as the Son, in his manner and measure.
Answ. This Knowledg belongs firstly to the Son as Second Person; but to the Humane Nature so far, as the Relation of Son-ship leaves some impression, according to the Nature, and Condition thereof. So that the Second Person in the Trinity, is no other, nor acts any otherwise than he did in himself. But this manner of acting in the knowledg of the Father, appears in the Humane Nature, and leave• new impressions in an especial manner, and the Father also in, and by him. And that is done in regard of that Union, that the Humane Nature hath to the Second Person: For as we know, the Second Person takes the Humane Nature into personal Union with him, so that there is not two Sons, but one Son: and the Lord Christ remains the same Person after the Union, that he was before. And therefore being one and the same Person with the Son, he may be said to know the Father, as the Son, in his manner and measure.
For as the Father gives being to the Son, and the Son receives all from the Father: so the Humane Nature hath ⟨p. 428⟩a total dependence upon the Son, he only incarnate, and so a sole reference with that respect to him, and so in him, to the Father: So that it is said, to be one and the same Person, one and the same Son, with the Son.