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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.
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.
For as the Father gives being to the Son, and the Son receives al from the Father: so the Humane Nature hath ⟨p. 428⟩a total dependance 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.
2. As to be reflected, is said to be the property of the Second Person, looking back, and returning his subsistence to the Father: So our Nature having a total dependence upon Christ in the Union, and being one Person with him, looks as the Second Person wholly to the Father: He brings back Jacob. Nay, it eyes, and owns, through the Son, all those Fatherly Impressions, and Affections, which are in the Father, and wherein he intimately unbosoms himself to his Son. That is the value of the word, Prov. 8.30. as we have observed before. [Greek or Hebrew], as much as, intueri, retinere.
2. As to be reflected, is said to be the property of the Second Person, looking back, and returning his subsistence to the Father: So our Nature having a total dependance upon Christ in the Union, and being one Person with him, looks as the Second Person wholly to the Father: He brings back Jacob. Nay, it eyes, and owns, through the Son, al those Fatherly Impressions, and Affections, which are in the Father, and wherein he intimately unbosoms himself to his Son. That is the value of the word,