A44344:1471
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.
Hence Christ can only be said to be sent of the Father, not of the Holy Ghost (I speak now of this internal sending, which is attended only in regard of the Person, not of the thing, about which he is sent) the Reason and ground is the same.
Sending implies the Authority of Order and Communication of work from one to another: but the Son works only from the Father, therefore can be said only to be sent from the Father.
Hence are there so many expressions and confessions of our Saviour in this kind, almost in every verse, when he would settle his commission. Joh. 5.30. I seek not mine own Will, but the Will of my Father which sent me. And verse, 36. I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, they bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Hence are there so many expressions and confessions of our Savior in this kind, almost in every verse, when he would settle his commission. Joh. 5.30. I seek not mine own Wil, but the Wil of my Father which sent me. And verse, 36. I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, they bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.