A44344:1465
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.
2. This Sending hath a double Reference. 1. To the Person that is sent. 2. To the thing about which he is sent: namely, When the Person sent, leaves a new act, or impression upon the Creature: so that the Creature is said to be otherwise than it was, and to have something which formerly it had not, and the Person is sent on purpose, to leave such operations, and impressions.
2. This Sending hath a double Reference. 1. To the Person that is sent. 2. To the thing about which he is sent: namely, When the Person sent, leaves a new act, or impression upon the Creature: so that the Creature is said to be otherwise than it was, and to have somthing which formerly it had not, and the Person is sent on purpose, to leave such operations, and impressions.
God sent his Son made of a Woman, sent him to take our Nature: here the second person takes our Nature into personal union with him. Sanctifies it, unites it, supports it.
Though Christ be the same, yet here be new impressions, which appear in the Creature, which formerly did not. I will send the Comforter, and be shall teach you and lead you into all truth. Here be new and diverse expressions of the work of the Spirit appearing, which formerly did not. Joh. 16.10.11. The second respect implies ever the first; the sending to a work implies a person that must be, and is sent to that end: though then these may be distinguished, in our reason and consideration, yet in the Nature of the thing, the one is included in the other.
Though Christ be the same, yet here be new impressions, which appear in the Creature, which formerly did not. I wil send the Comforter, and be shal teach you and lead you into al truth. Here be new and diverse expressions of the work of the Spirit appearing, which formerly did not.