A44344:1476
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.
There is no expectation of the Spirit, there is mo possibility of having, no, in truth of the sending of the Spirit, but only by this way, and upon this ground Joh. 16.7. It behooves that I go away, for unless I go, the Spirit will not come unto you, but if I go, I will send him. No coming of the spirit, unless he had first come. Unless he go to Heaven, no sending of the Spirit from Heaven.
There is no expectation of the Spirit, there is mo possibility of having, no, in truth of the sending of the Spirit, but only by this way, and upon this ground Joh. 16.7. It behooves that I go away, for unless I go, the Spirit wil not come unto you, but if I go, I wil send him. No coming of the spirit, unless he had first come. Unless he go to Heaven, no sending of the Spirit from Heaven.
As it is true for the measure in regard of his ascension: so it is true, for the reality of the thing, in regard of his Mission from the Father. For the spirit must be sent from the Father and the Son: And therefore it presumes his sending. And Hence it is, when he is come, being sent of the Father, He shall teach you all things, and shall bring to mind, what ever I have said to you. And that which Christ speaks, he hath from the Father, not from the Spirit. Joh. 14.10. — The words he speaks not of himself. And Verse, 24. The words which ye hear are not mine, but the Fathers which sent me; He hath the message from him. Joh. 12.49. I have not spoken of my self, but the Father, which sent me, gave me a command what I shall say, and what I should speak.
As it is true for the measure in regard of his ascension: so it is true, for the reality of the thing, in regard of his Mission from the Father. For the spirit must be sent from the Father and the Son: And therefore it presumes his sending. And Hence it is, when he is come, being sent of the Father, He shal teach you al things, and shal bring to mind, what ever I have said to you. And that which Christ speaks, he hath from the Father, not from the Spirit.